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Identity Quotes by Frederick Lenz

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Frederick Lenz talks about the self as a screen that shows images and then lets them go. He says the self can be an endless ocean beyond our ordinary limits, and that realizing this is the same as finding true freedom. He also compares the self to waves that appear, surface, and disappear.

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Self-realization is the last game on earth worth playing.

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An individual has to be tenacious enough to become enlightened.

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Self-realization is liberation. Liberation is self-realization.

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There is no one to realize the Self.

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The illusion of selfhood, ego, a separate identity is false.

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To go beyond karma you have to end the structure of self.

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Yes I say that I am enlightened. What does that mean? It means I live in a condition of light...There really is…

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There is a wonderful continuity of being, the continuous awareness of self, a sense of yourself continuing in time and space.

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All questions about the Self, fall away in the white light of eternity, in nirvana, because then we have awakened from the…

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Self-realization: No ego, no desires, no weight problems, no tax forms, no death to die, no life to live.

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Self is the perception of perception. Beyond self there's no perception of perception.

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The perceiver of the dream, the one whom the dream is unfolding before, is what we call the Self.

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We aren't anything in particular. There is no self. There are only ideas and states of mind.

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I must play my role, great or small - that is humility, without self-importance, without self-indulgence.

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When we talk about self-realization, we're talking from the point of view of limitation of the mind. Real knowledge is to see…

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Self-realization is a strange term. You don't actually realize your 'self'. If anything, you go away. The caterpillar enters the cocoon of…

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Each one of you has created a sense of self. That's what the tonal does. Each one of you is taught a…

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The sense of self is one of the obscurations that prevents us from seeing clearly, the idea that there is a self…

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We want to know what our self is. We are the sky. Our thoughts are the birds that come and go. You…

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Perception is the ability to be conscious of self and that which is other than self. Without thinking about it, a distinction…

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As a human being you are capable of a higher level of perception than you may now be cognizant of. You are…

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It is implicit in the self that the self will automatically evolve if you can dissolve it. It re-patterns itself after archetypal…

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You are not a singular self. You are a corporation. Inside you is eternity. A human being is not so simple.

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There is no self, yet we all exist. All phenomena are "empty," yet they have Buddha nature.

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The ideas that we have about self are an aggregate within a state of mind, and they chain us to a state…

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The ego is a false perception of self. It's an idea, a transitory identity that we've picked up.

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You find yourself in this world, you find yourself out of this world and there's no one to find the Self. There's…

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Beyond the parameters of the self is an ocean ... and it's most excellent.

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We are many, many selves. We're not just a finite being. The selves don't necessarily speak in words. But they are you.

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We are made up of nothing. There is no self. We are whatever we decide we are.

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In that undifferentiated reality of the Self there is eternal bliss. All the phantoms of existence fade away.

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Self-realization is not the awareness that this world is a dream, that's a part of self-realization.

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To have the illusion of selfhood simply means that when you look in the mirror, you see somebody.

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To talk about realizing the Self is discontinuous because there is nothing to realize but the Self. There is nothing but realization.

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Your ego interferes, your sense of self. When you let go of the mind, the Frisbee will take its own path.

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It is equally easy, initially, for either a man or a woman to attain enlightenment, what we would call liberation or self-realization.

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The self plays among the waves of existence. It surfaces, it comes up for a while, and then it disappears again.

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This is not the case. There is nothing that is not the Self. The Self does not have to be realized.

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There is no self. There is nobody home. No forwarding address, no zip code. Address unknown.

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Change is continuous and the aggregate of the self is constantly shifting.

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

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