Quote

To perfect your nature doesn't mean to have some idea of what a perfect person is and to simply be that. That doesn't work.

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
Persons
Ideas
Person
Concentration
Mean
Simply
Work
Perfect
Idea
Doesn
Nature

More quotes by Frederick Lenz

Image
Humility feels that there is someone, somewhere who can do anything I can do better - except one thing: no one can be better at being me.
Frederick Lenz
Image
You stand on the edge of eternity, with a vista that is so incredible, so powerful, so perfect that it's overwhelming. You are so overwhelmed - you no longer exist.
Frederick Lenz
Image
Your ability to still your mind through the process of meditation and inner reflection and outer change brings a stillness to the mind all the time, even in the midst of the busiest activities.
Frederick Lenz
Image
There are physical karmas. They are reactions and results from actions. But those are bound to a particular lifetime.
Frederick Lenz
Image
Change is continuous and the aggregate of the self is constantly shifting.
Frederick Lenz
Image
A person who has power doesn't seek to challenge others, their battles are within.
Frederick Lenz
Image
Mindfulness is the ability to do physical things in a harmonious way it is a way to remain centered in a physical world that is out of balance.
Frederick Lenz
Image
It's very funny. People do not want to achieve liberation or be happy. This is the basic guideline they teach you in Spiritual Training School.
Frederick Lenz
Image
Tantric Zen is a state of mind
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
For men, it's absolutely essential to stop believing that they're superior to women because that very belief engenders ego, which sets them off-balance. Therefore, they don't realize that they're being manipulated by the second attention of woman because their ego won't permit them.
Frederick Lenz
Image
There is a way to open up the chakras, there is a mystical way. But if you do that, you'll get yourself into very hot water, and it's ultimately slower.
Frederick Lenz
Image
Everything goes through the cycle of birth, growth, maturation, decay and death. But all of this is an illusion. Everything we see is an illusion.
Frederick Lenz
Image
Often, in the student's confusion, she or he directs anger at the teacher, blaming them for the pain they are experiencing, or for their own mistakes.
Frederick Lenz
Image
I don't think you see your minds. I think you see your thoughts you see your desires you see your relatives, friends, lovers, enemies. I don't think you see your mind. You think of the mind as the clutter.
Frederick Lenz
Image
Will is developed in meditation. It is refined. It is within you, but you don't know how to get to it.
Frederick Lenz
Image
Most people think happiness comes from experiences in the world. The fulfillment of desire causes a type of happiness. But as soon as they experience passes, the happiness passes.
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
You have to learn to be very, very gentle to start with - with yourself eventually. Meditation is not something that you force. It is something that happens to you because life gives you a gift.
Frederick Lenz
Image
If you look deeply inside them you'll only see eternity whereas with most human beings, when you look inside, you'll see all kinds of different things.
Frederick Lenz