Quote

The danger in mysticism is that you push yourself too far into the nagual too soon. This is obsession.

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
Mysticism
Obsession
Push
Buddhism
Soon
Danger

More quotes by Frederick Lenz

Image
If you follow anything far enough in the universe, it will eventually lead to light.
Frederick Lenz
Image
A walk in the woods can reveal many things, and it is a good time to practice transcendentalism. Look at a tree and realize it's not just a tree, its roots may go into the ground but it may also go into other worlds, other eternities.
Frederick Lenz
Image
I'm an observer of life. I like to watch people, and I like to watch cactus. I like to talk to mountains and communicate with my friends in the other spheres and dimensions.
Frederick Lenz
Image
In the creative arts you draw a special power. The discipline required is awesome to be an actor or an actress, to be really good, not just another one waiting tables.
Frederick Lenz
Image
Success will come about because you are in a higher state of mind. If you create good karma, then you will go into higher states of mind.
Frederick Lenz
Image
By disciplining and training the mind to focus on one thing, we gain control of perception we learn to grab it and put it someplace we want it to be.
Frederick Lenz
Image
Meditation is essential because meditation opens the mind to itself.
Frederick Lenz
Image
Personality is a manifestation of ego. Ego is the central sense of separateness that a person has from the rest of the universe. Personality is the form that that separateness take.
Frederick Lenz
Image
Different schools of Zen have evolved, principally the Rinzai and Soto orders. A whole hierarchy has developed for the teaching and practice of Zen. Zen has become, to a certain degree, institutionalized.
Frederick Lenz
Image
The ideas that we have about self are an aggregate within a state of mind, and they chain us to a state of mind.
Frederick Lenz
Image
Our past affects us, our present affects us, and even our future can affect us. We live in the relative world of time and space.
Frederick Lenz
Image
Try to be still inside. Learn to quiet and stop thought, and you will be able to develop your mind. Your psychic intuition will start to come about.
Frederick Lenz
Image
In one particular chapter in Ulysses, James Joyce imitates every major writing style that's been used by English and American writers over the last 700 years - starting with Beowulf and Chaucer and working his way up through the Renaissance, the Victorian era and on into the 20th century.
Frederick Lenz
Image
It is neither favorable nor unfavorable, because no one is there to favor it.
Frederick Lenz
Image
You can know the secrets of life. It doesn't happen to anyone special. You just decide that you want an uncommonly fine life and you will it.
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
The greatest miracle is the miracle of wakefulness, to awaken from the dream of life and to see infinity everywhere, even in the finite, in the simple doings of life.
Frederick Lenz
Image
The tonal is the sense of place. It is order and reason in a world of chaos.
Frederick Lenz
Image
There's a sense of productivity which cripples us terribly. We either have to be doing something worthwile or not. We are back to our little binary male-female code.
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