Quote

Who are these human beings anyway? They walk around, strut, fret, as if they owned the planet, or the goddamned universe. I mean, who do they really think they are?

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
Around
Buddhism
Human
Planet
Humans
Planets
Mean
Beings
Strut
Really
Walk
Goddamned
Think
Walks
Fret
Thinking
Humanity
Owned
Universe
Anyway

More quotes by Frederick Lenz

Image
The tonal is so strong, that it even arranges a syntactical place for God and thus kills the mystery, the reality, and paralyzes the being.
Frederick Lenz
Image
Each day try and go through the day with an attitude of being a servant to the world. You'll benefit the most - and the way will be joyous.
Frederick Lenz
Image
Human beings, when they encounter that which can't be understood, either run away from it, run towards it blindly, or just rationalize it out of existence.
Frederick Lenz
Image
Sex is life: The act of creation in pleasure, the loss of oneself in another, the coming together of opposites in a temporary union of yin and yang, that creates something other than either. What is life if not this?
Frederick Lenz
Image
A person is made up of awarenesses. All the awarenesses that have ever been our will ever be exist like barges floating in the ocean.
Frederick Lenz
Image
In poetry, and in my study in graduate school, I was drawn to a particular poet, Theodore Roethke. I did a dissertation on The Evolution of Matter and Spirit in the Poetry of Theodore Roethke for my Ph.D.
Frederick Lenz
Image
When you can become completely impassive in play, then you become fluid and completely unpredictable. No one knows, including yourself, what you will do next. You couldn't even explain it.
Frederick Lenz
Image
The way you succeed at all this stuff is by stopping trying to succeed and just working very hard without thinking about it, just trusting, completely. It's that faith that creates the bridge on which you walk across to eternity.
Frederick Lenz
Image
Enlightenment occurs when your mind merges with nirvana, with what Tibetans call the Dharmakaya, the clear light of reality, which is the highest plane of transcendental wisdom and perfect understanding.
Frederick Lenz
Image
Tantra is for the person who has gone beyond the rules. They've learned the rules so well that now they can go beyond them.
Frederick Lenz
Image
We fall into states of illusion - we forget all this. We get caught up in desires, frustrations, political movements, philosophies, religions, the getting of a living, the pain of a body, the pleasure of a body.
Frederick Lenz
Image
Don't judge your meditations. Don't rate them. The physical mind cannot tell how well you did. As long as you are sitting there trying, something will happen.
Frederick Lenz
Image
In Zen, and in other forms of self discovery, we do have a transference that occurs where psychically, information, blocks of attention, are transferred to the student.
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
There are seven primary centers, junctions, within the subtle physical body. These are called the seven chakras.
Frederick Lenz
Image
In order to do an empowerment, a person obviously has to be highly empowered, have the power, and also have the structural knowledge of how to transfer it to someone else.
Frederick Lenz
Image
Have the courage to be selfless in a world were such qualities are not admired. Dare to be differnt. Be crazy!
Frederick Lenz
Image
Whatever you need will be provided. Eternity takes care of everything perfectly. So never want for that which you do not have you have exactly what you need.
Frederick Lenz
Image
I have found that meditation has helped me with my academic career and has given me insights into musical composition and software design.
Frederick Lenz
Image
Alow immortality to work through you. Be but a mere instrument. And that instrument should be so absorbed in the perfect perfection of existence, that it knows not even that it is absorbed.
Frederick Lenz