Slow down. Enjoy life. It's tough to slow down if your mind is going a million miles a second. It's tough to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Nature gives constantly to us. We as indendepent egos think we're important. Selfless giving has to do with overcoming the ego. The… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In the West, we think of sports and athletics as individual achievement, the thrill of victory, the agony of defeat; it all… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If someone has something you want, they can wrap you - they can make you think that they've got something that you… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Reincarnation is not what a lot of people think. Yes, we are eternal. No, everyone does not attain enlightenment; it's not necessary;… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It's funny, people who have a lot of sexual energy think of themselves as being not spiritual. They are probably more spiritually… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If we put five people together, are there really five people? I don't think so, not in the world of magic. In… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You need to accept the fact that you will often do exactly the opposite of what you think is right. You need… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Software is a reflection of our own mind. And as our software improves it will not only take on the patterns of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I enjoy the writings of all of these authors and they have been very inspirational for me. But I think that it… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You see a very advanced master who's got a girlfriend, who listens to rock and roll, who thinks about things that are… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Self-knowledge, I guess, is hard. But I think pain is harder, personally. I think to be hopeless is very hard. I think… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I think one can advance faster outside a monastery if you use the experiences of daily life to advance yourself. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Most people think happiness comes from experiences in the world. The fulfillment of desire causes a type of happiness. But as soon… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I don't think people should be primarily concerned with money or material success. They should be concerned with doing that which is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Mindfulness is the direct application of Buddhist teachings to a physical event, a way of doing or accomplishing something, or a way… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
After the meditation session you have to be a little bit careful. If you start to think a lot of thoughts and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There are those who want to revolutionize the world with meditation. I really don't think that is necessary. The world is already… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Humility has tremendous power. Think of Gandhi. That was humility in action. He changed the shape of an entire nation. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I love so and so, how can I let go of them? You don't have to. You do whatever you chose. What… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The majority of times when a man thinks he has been the instigator, which men like to think, in sexual and romantic… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
To just burn out, to give up just because things don't go your way, to assume that there is no God, no… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Self-discover is not as someone would have us think, a heavy, awesome, moral process where everyone sits around and frowns. As you… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I personally have fun with enlightenment, the study and the teaching of it. I get a kick out of doing it different… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I went through times of self-hate, thinking how undeveloped spiritual I was. Everyone else in the ashram, a thousand people, nobody had… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When you go to a power spot, and you think negative or depressing thoughts they tend to grow stronger. Whereas, if you… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
People who have power, who think negatively of others and seek to injure them, are practicing a kind of voodoo, a lower… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Meditation gives you personal power. You will notice that people will treat you differently as you progress because they can feel that… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A number of Guru's feel that there is something wrong or sick about being gay. I think it really doesn't matter what… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
How can you tell if you are draining someone? How far have you gotten into their life? Are they dependent upon you?… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Don't think of us as separate beings. Imagine that we are one body and it's been split into millions. When we sit… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You can think whatever you want, you can create all the labels you choose, but the universe just is. You can come… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I don't think of myself as a guru but as a teacher. If one means 'guru' in the original sense a 'dispeller… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Whenever you find yourself becoming angry or jealous, try to see good quality in the person. You will suddenly be thinking a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A real enlightened teacher is intense and they could care less what you think about anything at any time since you are… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
How can you possibly be happy if you think you're a person? Because we all know, just by definition, that people are… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I saw "Forrest Gump" several times. I personally thought it was Tom Hanks' greatest role and I think it was one of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Words are deceptive. You think you understand something because it's explained to you and now you are under no obligation to do… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Stop worrying about tomorrow. Stop thinking about yesterday. Mindfulness is to be here now, in the moment. Focus on this moment. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think death is a greater awareness than life. Life gives us the illusion of immortality, whereas death gives us the… — 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
