If you think of spiritual practice as unpleasant work - it is not spiritual practice as I know it. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you line everything up, just right, you walk through a doorway where the world as you know it collapses. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I know a lot of wealthy people in West Los Angeles. Money doesn't necessarily make you happy. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
God is limitless awareness. There, now I have told you everything I know about God ... a lot of good it did you. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you know that you have had countless lives, then what happens in this life is not quite as traumatic. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In the light we can see what is and what is not. We know what is right and what is inappropriate. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you act impetuously, it will be uncertain, and you'll know it. It just won't feel right. It is better to wait. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Wisdom is something that seeks itself. The wiser you become the more you'd like to know. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In mysticism we reorder those awarenesses. We combine and recombine them endlessly. We assemble them so we can experience aspects of the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Jealousy, anger, fear - these are ridiculous emotions that drain your power. You need to control them by being content, trusting that… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Because someone is a lama or is part of a monastic order or claims to be part of a succession, doesn't really… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Your inner being already knows. It's trying to communicate with you. But it needs to shift you into a different state of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you are with a fully enlightened being, a jivan mukta, liberated soul, the quality of light is so clear, that you… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You have to become that infinite formless creation, which is life, to know it. It cannot be known in an intellectual sense.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Everything knows what is best for itself. That is what the Sanskrit word dharma means. Dharma means the best of all possible… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The way you increase your energy is by letting go, ultimately. There is something inside you that knows what it should do,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It's ridiculous if you ask me. I don't know what any of us are doing here. But we're a tribe, a network,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There are many different forms of life in the universe and human beings are unaware of most of them. Complex beings inhabit… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I can throw a great party, but I don't know how to go to one. I can throw a party because when… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A great deal has been written about personal power by Carlos Casteneda, and I find his first four books valuable. Of the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Giving my life to you may mean leading a very ordinary life or it may mean leading an extraordinary life. It may… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
To know that these are people who for a moment, in glory, in light, were true warriors, and you had the chance… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
What matters is that you meditate, you're seeking enlightenment, you're on the pathway to enlightenment, and you're having fun. Don't look for… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I know some teachers say that you shouldn't display the psychic powers and other powers referred to as the siddhas, but as… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Oh God, God, please come to me, please illumine me, please act in me and through me. I don't know what's right… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Real humility is something that no one else will see. No one will know about your humility, if it's real. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Maybe if you stopped asking "why" all the time, you might be happy. Leave it alone, you know? Life is happy. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The reason you don't get to know God is because you're afraid. You're afraid of the immensity. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Do not be a sniveler. Do not say you can't be happy, you can't be enlightened. How do you know? It is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
As long as you are in the relative worlds, you should be realistic and know there is winning and losing here. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I don't know how much you know about Zen, but you'll know less when I'm done with you. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Winning and losing are feelings; something in us knows if we have won or lost. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
From a Buddhist perspective, it is incorrect to always assume that we know what is best. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
As long as it's a world, it has laws. Why, I don't know, it's just the way it is. In Nirvana, there… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Take out two pieces of paper. One piece of paper, list all the people you know who are adding to your life. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
What is enlightenment, anyway? I don't know if I can really put it into words, perhaps you can. I can't. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It is good to have respect for all beings because who knows what anyone can do? — 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
