Frederick Lenz Quotes

Watch out for dark streets in big cities because there are a lot of strange beings that hang out there at night, let alone the people. Don't you remember anything from your other lives?

We want to be all things, not just to gain power over things - how infantile!

I think I've learned more from women than anyone else, and perhaps from love - what a wonderful testing ground, what a wonderful place to see and sense our limitations, to know that the pain reflects your state of awareness and not being able to hide from it.

A whole society imprints us. Language, television and culture imprints us Just living in a country is a vibratory imprint. All the collective attentions, of all the people who live there - imprint us.

Just as we have a physical body, so we have an etheric body and the etheric body is made up of energy, of light.

You can be in a state of mind for a few seconds and forget that you were ever in any other state of mind. That's what we mean by illusion.

When we open our heart up to someone, that energy, of course, comes into us.

It is very important to always hold the thought of an enlightened teacher in your mind in a very positive way. When you direct negative energy towards someone who is powerful, it has a terrible bounce-back effect.

To perfect your nature means to let go of this world and place your attention fully in the plane of enlightenment.

Some of the most exalted states of consciousness I experienced were in bed with someone, alone, or with my spiritual teacher. There was never a difference for me.

You don't always have to be the winner, have everybody notice you. It's fun to dance alone sometimes.

Buddhism is the study of changing who we are, modifying or perhaps totally restructuring ourselves as perceivers.

To try and fit reincarnation into a neat mental package is very unwise. You will be very surprised when you discover that it doesn't work out that way. Your illusions will be painful for you.

When there's no difference, there's no time, no world, no separativity - and there's no you ... nor is there an I.

To get involved with some ridiculous battle of power with someone else will use up your energy.

As we grow up, we are exposed to hate and greed and anger and jealousy and peanut brittle and all kinds of things, our subtly body erodes.

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.

I seemed to be leading a very incongruous life from the point of view of the definition of the community I was in.

Discriminate between the transient and the eternal. Learn to move from complete control to complete abandon.

If you seek to develop the mind fully, for the enlightenment process, you will benefit if your career is related to computer science, law, medicine, or the arts.

In the high mountains and desert beings can affect you. Most aren't malicious, but some will lure you to your death.

Love has its own independent form and formlessness. When someone loves you be gratiful for it. If they stop loving be grateful for that. If they love another, let them love!

Get real. Life is heavy. It's difficult. It's complex...even for the wise.

People hold an image of you and project that image when they feel you are changing. Disappear for a while. Break up your routines.

I learned about the benefits and the vast limitations of such types of exploration, as did all my generation.

Today it is very popular to do a thing we call channeling. People are trying to channel entities and have these beings come through them. In my estimation this is downright ridiculous and dangerous.

I've moved a lot of my students into a high state of mind, but they don't do the things I have shown them how to do. So then, they drop down into a lower stage of attention.

Be honest! You are not going to want to admit energy loss. Someone is making it hard for you to look.

There's no risk in doing a lousy meditation or not meditating at all. There's no risk in being convenient and comfortable. There's a lot of risk in the world of enlightenment.

We are transmuting the reality of our perceptual field. There are endless, beautiful and perfect universes - or you can go beyond universes to the dissolution, where there's no beginning.

Only alone can you go into eternity. Only alone can you feel the transcendental light. It is not a shared experience because if it is shared, you are down in duality.

Several very good friends of mine have died of AIDS. I spent a great deal of time with them when they went through that process.

In the realm of the higher astral, it's just fun. We're on the honeymoon and we love each other so much that we can't keep our hands off each other and everything is wonderful. It doesn't last; it's a honeymoon.

After two or three days, the door will close and you will not be able to make those changes as easily.

Aum is the most powerful of all mantras. It is good to chant Aum seven or more times before and after each meditation. Chanting "Aum" puts you in harmony with the vibration of Eternity. "Aum" opens the gateway to the infinite highway of light.

Nirvana is the center of things; then there are the outer bandings of attention. The universe is a mind. At the center of its mind is nirvana.

The mind must be made calm and still. Then it is aimed at the sky, at the brightness, at that infinitude of being that stretches out endlessly in every direction forever.

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

People are so tired. The world is set up to exhaust you and drain you. That's how humankind has devised their world. Life is not necessarily that way

In meditation, we are going back into the light. All our pain will be taken away, our frustration.

There is no way to measure it ... because there's no one to measure it.

Now, stopping thought is only the beginning. As Brahmananda, who was a disciple of Sri Ramakrishna, once remarked: The inner life begins with samadhi. This is an awesome thought, I realize, for the average person who meditates, that it could begin with samadhi.

Letting go is the hardest thing. Everybody is so afraid. They're so afraid of eternity. They're so afraid of life. They're so afraid of what's on the other side of death. There is nothing but light. God is everywhere.

All action is generated by desire. It is the desire to live that causes us to reincarnate.

The aggregates that we pick up in the human plane will be washed away, and we will become pure spirit, pure light, pure love, and pure ecstasy.

Meditation is the short path to happiness. Meditation takes you beyond the desire-aversion operating system that offers very limited happiness and a great deal of frustration.

Tantra is non-dogmatic, in the sense that we don't care about the sensual world; we don't care about other religious traditions. To not care doesn't mean that we don't learn.

I would recommend, initially, if you are trying to increase your personal power level, to meditate on the navel center, not the lower two.