Quote

If you can be agreeable to each and every person or situation with which you come into contact - no matter how difficult it is or how much you think you are in the right - then you are demonstrating control.

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
Thinking
Persons
Demonstrating
Person
Agreeable
Come
Contact
Matter
Buddhism
Right
Balance
Much
Control
Every
Situation
Think
Difficult

More quotes by Frederick Lenz

Image
Happy people, enlightened people, successful people all share something in common. They have learned how to manage and increase their energy.
Frederick Lenz
Image
You can take the kundalini from the crown center and bring it down. You can bring it up or you can stabilize them both. When you stop breathing in meditation, the kundalini is stabilized.
Frederick Lenz
Image
Honestly admitting what you lost and not trying to rationalize it or push it off is an important step in self-assessment and mindfulness.
Frederick Lenz
Image
An enlightened person lives in the world, passes through the ten thousand states of mind, but they are not bound by them. They can go beyond perception.
Frederick Lenz
Image
In the western philosophy you can't perceive infinities at every moment. It's not there to do.
Frederick Lenz
Image
Of the four major pathways to self-realization, jnana yoga, from the point of view of the beginner, is the most difficult.
Frederick Lenz
Image
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.
Frederick Lenz
Image
The Buddhist mindset seeks to eliminate the self. That is to say, what we want to experience is life, not self. When there's less self and more life, we're very content, and when there's more self and less life we're quite unhappy.
Frederick Lenz
Image
Nature is the endless reflective pattern of existence in eternity. As I sit here watching the leaves and watching their patterns, I'm reminded of so many things I've seen in other planes and in other worlds.
Frederick Lenz
Image
When you draw from the endless awareness of nirvana, you are no longer a slave to fortune. When pleasant experiences come your way, you can enjoy them. But if pain and misfortune befall you, you can rise above them and remain unaffected.
Frederick Lenz
Image
Start a meditation session by repeating a mantra, perhaps, Aum, which is the most powerful of all mantras. Then, after repeating the mantra perhaps a dozen times, focus on a yantra.
Frederick Lenz
Image
The essence of all reincarnation is to have the best lifetime now that you've ever had, no matter what's going on.
Frederick Lenz
Image
Most of you are predominantly nagual. You have trouble with the physical life because you have devoted more of your attention to the mysterious side of your being.
Frederick Lenz
Image
If you want to be liberated, if you choose to be what I am, then you've chosen freedom. You can do this.
Frederick Lenz
Image
A realistic recognition of the human condition is that it is corrupt beyond belief. What do you suppose would happen if the police all took a week off?
Frederick Lenz
Image
Mysteries are not riddles. Mysteries are places to go with your mind. You go into mysteries.
Frederick Lenz
Image
What we are seeking to do is not melt the map of America. We are seeking to melt the self, the solid form that we consider ourselves to be.
Frederick Lenz
Image
Meditate well so you can be a good instrument of eternity. You could have a mediocre meditation today, but you're not going to. Today you might run into someone who you might talk to about the dharma.
Frederick Lenz
Image
Perception is, in essence, who we are. We are what we perceive. What we perceive defines who we are.
Frederick Lenz
Image
They too wonder about the nature of existence, where they've come from and where they're going to and how much time they have.
Frederick Lenz