Quote

When it reaches a blockage, water find the easiest path around the blockage, or it continues to assemble, and flows over the blockage.

Frederick Lenz

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Frederick Lenz
Age: 48 †
Born: 1950
Born: February 9
Died: 1998
Died: April 12
Author
Entrepreneur
San Diego
California
Find
Reaches
Taoism
Flows
Continues
Flow
Path
Blockage
Water
Assemble
Around
Easiest

More quotes by Frederick Lenz

Image
Selfless giving is a choice. The primary choice we make is not what to give, how to give, where to give. What we are trying to do is become perfect givers.
Frederick Lenz
Image
A teacher is not someone you need perpetually. You need them to show you how to get through the doorway but once you get through the doorway, you are on your own.
Frederick Lenz
Image
Human beings going to their jobs and living their lives are unconscious. They don't know what's going on. They don't know why you are born or why you die.
Frederick Lenz
Image
For years and years you enter into samadhi every day in order to attain liberation. Eternity fashions a new self which you find yourself with when you come out of samadhi. Each time you come out a little less, you might say, or your real self comes out a little more
Frederick Lenz
Image
Nothing lasts forever - except forever. That's the good news. It's a good thing that nothing lasts forever because things would get terribly boring.
Frederick Lenz
Image
The only way you can really evaluate spiritual advancement is to see how someone treats those who are close to them.
Frederick Lenz
Image
If you have more personal power and you are in higher states of mind, then naturally you can see things and adhere to them or avoid them. Personal power is really the issue.
Frederick Lenz
Image
It is best to study from a teacher of ANY subject, as long as you focus on the teachings and NOT on the teacher. All of the real important answers to life's questions lie within your own mind.
Frederick Lenz
Image
Life is a series of dreams, a series of interlocking awarenesses.
Frederick Lenz
Image
Nothing is any particular way. It's your state of mind that creates reality.
Frederick Lenz
Image
We see a lot of people who decide to go out and teach meditation. They become so wrapped up in it that they stop progressing themselves and they really don't have that much more to teach.
Frederick Lenz
Image
You can take power from others you can steal it. It is not a very high-grade power. It will give you a certain amount of access to a better life but it corrupts the individual.
Frederick Lenz
Image
The heart is a place of great light and their are different gradations of light that pass through the heart.
Frederick Lenz
Image
Don't be afraid. You are as alive as anything else is alive. Your right to be alive is as great as the right of anything else.
Frederick Lenz
Image
A better name for nirvana might be endless love. Love not even in the sense that we see it if we're watching the romantic movie, but love in a sense of no absence.
Frederick Lenz
Image
It has been my experience as a teacher over the years and incarnations that what really counts are not techniques. What really counts is spirit, love. What really counts is a sense of propriety and dedication.
Frederick Lenz
Image
See how it's a philosophy that's been handed to you by a bunch of men who were afraid. So instead, they overcompensate with hatred and violence and repression.
Frederick Lenz
Image
The samskaras that were developed in previous incarnations are usually hidden by the temporary amnesia of infancy and by the transient personality.
Frederick Lenz
Image
My teaching - of what is perceived to be a complex and foreign sounding religious philosophy - has become the target for people's prejudice and religious intolerance.
Frederick Lenz
Image
We have to constantly ask ourselves: Who am I?
Frederick Lenz