Quote

The relationship between the student and teacher is ultimately important. In higher spirituality we don't study a subject as much as a person.

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
Teacher
Ultimately
Study
Spirituality
Persons
Yoga
Person
Subject
Important
Subjects
Much
Students
Higher
Relationship
Student

More quotes by Frederick Lenz

Image
Don't become a spiritual bigot. Don't feel that just because you meditate and you are striving for enlightenment that you are in any way superior to any other person. Be even. Be easy. You will last longer on the pathway to self-discovery.
Frederick Lenz
Image
The key to gazing is stopping thought. Gazing is a soft focus you are touching something with your luminosity. If you could but look into the mountains you would see a diffuse glow.
Frederick Lenz
Image
In reading, in literature and poetry, I found an artistic freedom that I didn't see at Woolworth's. I would read everything from Shakespeare to science fiction ... sometimes a book a day.
Frederick Lenz
Image
Through the practice of concentration and various techniques, we silence the mind and we enter into a flow of perfect light. We go outside of the parameters of mind and thought and experience nirvana.
Frederick Lenz
Image
You can just sweep the floor generally and gain nothing from it. Or you can figure out the best way to sweep the floor, put your power into it, use it as a concentration exercise, and be meditative.
Frederick Lenz
Image
Some people travel to other dimensions in their astral bodies when they meditate.
Frederick Lenz
Image
If your parents were strong in one way and weak in another, you will be strong in the same way and weak in the same way. Even though you detest the weakness in them, you will find that you will do exactly the same things because they imprinted you.
Frederick Lenz
Image
You are trying to pierce the veil, to break through the Frisbee so that it doesn't exist, to break through the football so it doesn't exist, and to break through your opponent so they don't exist.
Frederick Lenz
Image
Most people suffer in love because of attachment. Attachment means we're interested in a net return on our investment.
Frederick Lenz
Image
Purity is innocence, the innocence of lack of self. Desire is innocent unless it's connected with self.
Frederick Lenz
Image
Loneliness is a feeling that is created by our ego. The ego feels separate from the rest of creation. The answer to overcoming those feelings is ecstasy.
Frederick Lenz
Image
One person's cult is another person's spiritual organization.
Frederick Lenz
Image
While all the things you believe and know exist in their own right, they're ways of looking at existence, but existence is infinite - it's beyond all ways of looking.
Frederick Lenz
Image
The illusion of purpose is to be avoided. The illuion of lack of purpose is to be avoided.
Frederick Lenz
Image
What is gone before is gone. All you have now are the results of your actions.
Frederick Lenz
Image
With the happiness, ecstasy and power you gain from meditation, you can gradually remove your mind from the things it has become hooked to that cause it pain.
Frederick Lenz
Image
At an early age I found the world a very natural place to be. I was always in a meditative consciousness as a child, which children are.
Frederick Lenz
Image
I explored alternate states of consciousness at one period of my life through psychedelics, as was the fashion with all my friends.
Frederick Lenz
Image
Balance is to choose happiness, to feel that the purpose of life is to love, not necessarily to be loved, to be happy, to be conscious, to be aware, to be fulfilled.
Frederick Lenz
Image
Maybe you don't need to do this. Maybe this isn't your moment. But if you do feel the pull of the eternal, then you can't stay away from it.
Frederick Lenz