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Discovery Quotes by Frederick Lenz

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Frederick Lenz teaches that self‑discovery starts with seeing how unhappy you are and imagining a happier path. He says progress comes from kindness, hard work, and a smile, not from strict rituals or a single style. He also warns against teachers who keep you dependent instead of guiding you to your own insight.

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The few women who have been admitted to the study are usually given a second-class status in which they are taught only…

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You need to search your awareness and consider the limitless possibilities of existence in all things and not be so narrow-minded in…

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Mysticism is an eclectic mixture of various forms of self-discovery that's primarily experimental.

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Self-discovery is a process of dissolution and creation. Dissolution means envelopment in eternity. Creation is bringing into focus new awareness

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I don't think there is a right approach to teaching self discovery. Every situation is unique.

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Love is the only rule in self-discovery. If you've forgotten that rule, you've forgotten everything. It's not what you can get; it's…

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Women have been denied access to advanced methods of self discovery throughout the ages.

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There are two sides to self-discovery, as in most things, an outer more popular side and an inner side. The popular side…

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People come to a teacher to learn self-discovery. A teacher who just wants to keep you on a string forever, the god-guru…

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What is important in self-discovery is the person who keeps going, who has a smile, who is kind to others, who works…

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The anti-pleasure movement in self-discovery is very strong. I have big news for them, if they ever get to enlightenment, which is…

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Most teachers of self-discovery have two types of students. They have students they deal with in a more exoteric way than the…

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What's important is to be supportive of all who practice. Anyone on any level, even if they don't call it self-discovery, who…

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Don't become a spiritual bigot. Don't feel that just because you meditate and you are striving for enlightenment that you are in…

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Self discovery doesn't not seek to bring you answers about your personal life or philosophically comfort you about life and death. What…

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It is my experience that if a person practices self discovery with intent, they will be successful. Success is an outer sign…

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I don't dictate particular styles of dress. I do teach classes in self discovery.

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A war is an incarnation. A battle is a day of your life. So we do one day at a time in…

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Most people we observe who practice self-discovery just get caught up in a new description, a new "ism", a new religion, a…

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A lot of people who are involved in self-discovery lose energy to abusive teachers, to abusive friends and to entities, non-physical beings.

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A Zen master is someone whose life is one with enlightenment and self-discovery. They can never be separated from that. They've been…

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A great deal of humility is necessary in the process of self-discovery. Humility is the ability to accept what and who you…

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Nothing you can do can prevent your death. Nothing you can do can prevent your rebirth. To step beyond life and death…

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Tantra means the avoidance of a set or defined form of spirituality. Tantra is intuitive self-discovery.

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I like Miracles. They inspire me. Miracles are the fun of enlightenment. When a teacher does a miracle, and everyone sees it,…

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Self-discovery is realistic. It's not built on ideas and philosophies. It's what works. Philosophies are nice if you like philosophies. But self-discovery…

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You've got to make a person aware of how miserable they really are and show them how happy they can be. Otherwise,…

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Self-discovery is a very advanced art. What we're doing basically is screwing around with what you're made up of. We're taking awarenesses,…

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I am Western and I see no need or reason to change that. The Western lifestyle has many things to offer, as…

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One of the greatest mistakes that people make who pursue self-discovery is they neglect to develop their careers. There is a popular…

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In our world, in our pre-World War III condition, meditation is considered a cult activity and people who practice self-discovery are actually…

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You don't have to meditate. You don't have to practice self-discovery and Buddhism. You should only practice self-discovery if you really have…

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Unfortunately, in self-discovery, you get the culty types who want the father figure or mother figure to tell them everything to do.…

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I try to teach people to continually search and question the meaning of everything they are taught and everything they believe in.…

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In the process of self-discovery you will learn to be kind when you could be harsh. You will learn to forgive, mostly…

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Souls have different journeys. The best thing to know is, not what everybody else does, but what you do. Self-discovery essentially is…

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What you need to learn are basic types of concentration, bringing more energy into your life, plugging up the holes where you…

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If you are trying to aid people in the process of self-discovery, what you have to do is confound them with so…

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The force that drives the green fuse, as Dylan Thomas said, cannot be understood. So self-discovery is to accept your daily meditation,…

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People who are involved in self-discovery lead different types of lives. The lives they lead are not necessarily the lives of renunciation.…

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Everyone will admire you when you do well. What a horrible thing to do to someone.

Nirvana is a word that means enlightenment, being beyond the illusion of birth and death, the illusion of pain, the illusion of love, the…

I think the most miraculous thing is learning. I get out of the way and let the students learn. Then you get to watch…

If you choose to draw from the inner well of free will, then you can make choices that are outside your current karmic patterns.

A human being can only absorb a small amount of the mystical kundalini, you can be exposed again and again to it, but it…

Enlightened people live in very charged states of attention, with a tremendous power circuiting through them.

Only alone can you go into eternity. Only alone can you feel the transcendental light. It is not a shared experience because if it…

Balance is the ability to be happy in the midst of the most chaotic or even boring or transient circumstance.

The sound man, immune as to a sacrifice of straw dogs, faces the passing human generations.

Karma means changing planes of reality or changing fields of attention. There will be perhaps a resulting physical action stemming from the change of…

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…

Why waste your time being around people who drag you down? You don't live forever, at least in this life.

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…