Top 25 Quotes by Frederick Lenz of 4397 - Page 5

Some people say: There is no God; because, if there was a God, God would stop all the suffering. Nonsense! God is oblivious to suffering. God is beyond suffering. That's what makes God, God, by definition.

Some people say: "There is no God; because, if there was a God, God would stop all the suffering." Nonsense! God is oblivious to suffering. God is beyond suffering. That's what makes God, God, by definition.

Frederick Lenz

God, People, Suffering

Yes, there are siddha powers. Yes, you can heal people, transform attention. You can flood the sky with light at night so you can't even see the stars. But the greatest miracle is the spirit - it is light

Frederick Lenz

Stars, Night, Light

Energy is gained by giving energy. When we give energy, we gain energy. This is different than having someone manipulate you and take your energy.

Frederick Lenz

Compassion, Giving, Energy

When most people see a tree, they don't see a tree at all. They see an idea that they have developed of what a tree is.

Frederick Lenz

Buddhism, Ideas, People

People who are involved in self-discovery lead different types of lives. The lives they lead are not necessarily the lives of renunciation. Rather, it is a structuring of the elements in your life in a particular way.

Frederick Lenz

Inspirational, Success, Buddhism

Just to exist, just to be, to take a breath, to feel that, whether its pleasure or pain, loss or gain, just your experience in life is unique to you. No one sees life like you do.

Frederick Lenz

Happiness, Pain, Buddhism

If you are around a lot of human beings who are filled with jealousy and anger and rage and desire, it filters into the mind. Zen is writing a new program to run in the mind.

Frederick Lenz

Running, Writing, Mind

By fully focusing your mind on your chakras, stilling your thoughts, and increasing your kundalini flow, you can rise above your body consciousness and unite your mind with the clear light of nirvana.

Frederick Lenz

Buddhism, Light, Chakra Meditation

Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

Psychic development is a necessary skill in leading a successful and happy life. Your intellectual processes and your senses don't give you enough information to distinguish the real from the unreal.

Frederick Lenz

Real, Successful, Happy Life

It is necessary to do a very thorough examination of your life and to discover whether the people in your life, no matter how much you love them, are using you or abusing you.

Frederick Lenz

People, Examination, Matter

Let us say your wife, husband, boyfriend, girlfriend makes you happy. If they leave, you're bound to be unhappy. You are the slave of the thing that makes you happy. You are a junkie and human relationships can be expensive habits.

Frederick Lenz

Happiness, Girlfriend, Husband

If you are able to stop feeling sorry for yourself, and to contribute to the betterment of this world and of those around us, you will experience a high that is beyond my ability to express.

Frederick Lenz

Inspirational, Sorry, Buddhism

Astrologically, at that age, you experience a Saturn return. It is considered an auspicious time to "reboot" your life. It's a chance to have a clean start and move forward into something very exciting.

Frederick Lenz

Moving, Age, Rama

Everything is a state of mind. Astral travel is the ability to wander through different states of mind and develop psychic perceptions.

Frederick Lenz

Psychics, Perception, Mind

In Buddhism we have a great deal of etiquette. Etiquette is simply ways of living to conserve energy. Etiquette allows people to live in harmony with their environment.

Frederick Lenz

Buddhist, Buddhism, People

Any individual is capable of realizing the truth at any time. No tradition is necessary, no chain, no lineage. Once you have realized the truth, once you have become consciousness itself, then you go beyond all such distinctions.

Frederick Lenz

Buddhist, Buddhism, Lineage

Your inner being already knows. It's trying to communicate with you. But it needs to shift you into a different state of mind.

Frederick Lenz

Inspirational, Buddhism, Mind

There is no future. There is only now, a continuous now. We have become so wrapped up in the past and the future that we don't see the continuous now. There is no future. It is an idea that you have.

Frederick Lenz

Buddhism, Science, Past

This world we exist in is populated by people who have really shut themselves off from life.

Frederick Lenz

Buddhism, People, Humanity

You see a very advanced master who's got a girlfriend, who listens to rock and roll, who thinks about things that are very earthly. The advanced course has to with coming back to everything that you had to reject in the beginning and seeing it as a far greater infiniteness than everything that you've attained.

Frederick Lenz

Teacher, Girlfriend, Thinking

Each of the seven chakras references different dimensional planes. It is a turnstile that leads us into different dimensions. As the kundalini rises, the knowledge and powers of those dimensions will begin to come to you.

Frederick Lenz

Buddhism, Knowledge And Power, Seven Chakras

You're much too hung up on all of your ideas and your desires. You still have not penetrated the essence of yoga.

Frederick Lenz

Yoga, Essence, Ideas

As the kundalini energy increases, as the energy of the psyche becomes more pronounced, which it does as thought becomes eclipsed by silence, all the variant mind states burn away.

Frederick Lenz

Buddhism, Silence, Mind

What we focus on we become. If you are just focusing on unhappy things, you will become unhappy. If you focus on happy states of mind, then it will grow in you.

Frederick Lenz

Happiness, Buddhism, Focus