Self discovery doesn't not seek to bring you answers about your personal life or philosophically comfort you about life and death. What… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The idea of self is dependent upon attraction, aversion and memory. Memory is simply a serial account of attractions and aversions that… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Attraction and aversion create a sense of self. There is no self. They are just thoughts. They are insubstantial. When you die,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
People want to will their self realization. They want to know what the right thing to do all the time is. There… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The essence of the teachings is to lose self importance and to care more for the welfare of others and the magical… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In the Zen of sports and athletics, we seek to bring discipline and control into our physical movements, but at the same… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The anti-pleasure movement in self-discovery is very strong. I have big news for them, if they ever get to enlightenment, which is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
No self-effort in the direction of enlightenment is ever wasted. Even if you don't become fully enlightened in a given lifetime, you… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When we talk about self-realization, we're talking from the point of view of limitation of the mind. Real knowledge is to see… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
People come to a teacher to learn self-discovery. A teacher who just wants to keep you on a string forever, the god-guru… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Emotional control is essential for attaining higher levels of mind. The thing that the teacher looks for in a student is the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
What is important in self-discovery is the person who keeps going, who has a smile, who is kind to others, who works… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Self-acceptance is involved in this process. You have got to be able to look at both your dark and your light side… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Self-realization is a strange term. You don't actually realize your 'self'. If anything, you go away. The caterpillar enters the cocoon of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There is a certain degree of pain to be experienced in the search for self-knowledge, as there is a certain amount of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In the Upanishads they talk about the path of the sun and the path of the moon. The path of the moon… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The sense of self is one of the obscurations that prevents us from seeing clearly, the idea that there is a self… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The ego is not harmonious with happiness and spiritual development. In the process of spiritual transformation we refine it. In the fire… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The dreams of the self are manifold and endless and they exist in all the myriad worlds and conditions that appear to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If I can have an effect on influential women and men, if they seek me out because they are interested in self-knowledge… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Each one of you has created a sense of self. That's what the tonal does. Each one of you is taught a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Learn that happiness comes through self-control and not being angry or jealous. The only one that you really torment is yourself. It… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We want to know what our self is. We are the sky. Our thoughts are the birds that come and go. You… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The few women who have been admitted to the study are usually given a second-class status in which they are taught only… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Perception is the ability to be conscious of self and that which is other than self. Without thinking about it, a distinction… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You exist someplace else, and when you can contact yourself in that other place, when you can open up a kind of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
These truths may seem simple and self-apparent and the words easy to say, but the states of mind that you live in… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
That's what self-discovery seems to mean to most people. You're going to beat yourself up. You're going to reduce what you're supposed… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There is the experience of enlightenment, to be very aware of what lies beyond the boundaries of cognitive perception, reflection and self-awareness… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In meditation we get a sense of the countless selves within ourselves, the different forms they take. Those that don't seem positive… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Over the years of much self-hate, I came to realize that whether sexuality was in my life or not, it didn't seem… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When you are subjected to this light, depending on how strong the dose is, you will have two or three days in… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In the psychic process we are trying to eliminate everyone else from our minds, their effects, their energies, their influences: "To thine… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The best martial artist doesn't win fights, but avoids fights. Martial arts is a way of gaining basic self-mastery of your mind,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Determine where you are and where you wish to be. Then use all of your self-effort to make that happen, following the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Take the level of dedication that anyone had to get to the top in any field, and apply it to self-discovery. Except… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We must bring light to as many people as possible. Who has time to indulge in self-pity or guilt? In advanced self-giving… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Some people have a very strange idea that material success does not coincide harmoniously with self-realization, which is absurd. The aversion to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I would suggest to you that at this moment you are the only self that you have ever had; you've never had… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Happiness is self-generated as the mind becomes still. As we become involved with the desires of the world, we lose that centering,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There are places that are very draining. There are places where there is another dimensional crossover but to a dimension that is not powerful… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share
You can draw power from everything in your life. In order to do that, everything has to be set up in a proper way. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share
Everyone will admire you when you do well. What a horrible thing to do to someone. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share
Nirvana is a word that means enlightenment, being beyond the illusion of birth and death, the illusion of pain, the illusion of love, the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share
I think the most miraculous thing is learning. I get out of the way and let the students learn. Then you get to watch… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share
If you choose to draw from the inner well of free will, then you can make choices that are outside your current karmic patterns. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share
A human being can only absorb a small amount of the mystical kundalini, you can be exposed again and again to it, but it… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share
Enlightened people live in very charged states of attention, with a tremendous power circuiting through them. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share
Only alone can you go into eternity. Only alone can you feel the transcendental light. It is not a shared experience because if it… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share
Balance is the ability to be happy in the midst of the most chaotic or even boring or transient circumstance. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share
The sound man, immune as to a sacrifice of straw dogs, faces the passing human generations. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share
Karma means changing planes of reality or changing fields of attention. There will be perhaps a resulting physical action stemming from the change of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share
You and I are both life. There's just the experience of every moment. We like to call them moments. There isn't really such a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share
Why waste your time being around people who drag you down? You don't live forever, at least in this life. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share
Everybody here is so caught up in the game of life they don't see death. They don't see beyond their deaths. They are on… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share
