Any individual is capable of realizing the truth at any time. No tradition is necessary, no chain, no lineage. Once you have… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Phony gurus make themselves objects of adoration and worship. Real spiritual teachers aren't interested in adoration and worship. They like respect only… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
For men, it's absolutely essential to stop believing that they're superior to women because that very belief engenders ego, which sets them… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I think that the world ended a long time ago and no one realizes it. We're in a dream somewhere in a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I meditated on my own for some time, read spiritual books, became a vegetarian and had incredible experiences every day, every meditation,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
As a seer, I naturally can see the evolutionary potential of a being. But the potential will not necessarily be actualized. A… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You have developed the second attention much more than you realize and you use it more than you realize as a woman.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Never think too much of yourself. Realize you are only an instrument of eternity. Do not get stuck in that terrible trap.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When you realize your own emptiness, that will be something, won't it? — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you live in the city, it is necessary to get out of it on weekends. Then you will realize that most… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Most people, without consciously realizing it, absorb a great deal of psychic energy from the people they casually associate with, and even… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I realize that there's a thing called the bodhisattva ideal, and it's a very nice pinnacle of attention. It's a very egotistical… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A way of spreading the dharma is just telling people, sharing with them your experiences. Never push it, never be a missionary.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Happiness comes from living in the moment, this moment, now, right here. If you are in obscure states of mind, you won't… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
To talk about realizing the Self is discontinuous because there is nothing to realize but the Self. There is nothing but realization. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
What a man must do is realize that his continued belief in the inferiority of women is going to produce a type… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Advance yourself by advancing others. Do not judge others. Be of service to them, but realize that you are not necessarily the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Only when you are by yourself can you realize how wonderful you are. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
By perfecting the practices of zazen and mindfulness, by learning patience and love and by realizing the essential emptiness of all phenomena,… — 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
A perfect life is to observe - to realize that you have no control over the events in your life, that there… — 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
People we are emotionally open to and close to affect us more than most people realize. If you are emotionally open to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Now, stopping thought is only the beginning. As Brahmananda, who was a disciple of Sri Ramakrishna, once remarked: The inner life begins… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Humility means realizing that it's fun to give everything away, particularly the things that you are most attached to. — 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 Image
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 Image
Everyone will admire you when you do well. What a horrible thing to do to someone. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Enlightened people live in very charged states of attention, with a tremendous power circuiting through them. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
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 Image
Balance is the ability to be happy in the midst of the most chaotic or even boring or transient circumstance. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The sound man, immune as to a sacrifice of straw dogs, faces the passing human generations. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
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 Image
