Quote

Those who scorn and hate the world and hate themselves miss the point. The point was that there wasn't one. There was no place to go to.

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
Hate
Place
Scorn
World
Buddhism
Miss
Missing
Wasn
Point

More quotes by 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
Our sense of being worthwhile, our sense of being good, our sense of being anything must go - Final clearance sale.
Frederick Lenz
Image
Lao Tsu says the way of life is water, to be fluid.
Frederick Lenz
Image
We live inside too much. We live inside and we have square thoughts and square ideas because we live in square houses. Our lives are colored by our environments. Our attention fields are colored by it.
Frederick Lenz
Image
They get you when you're young. When you are a kid, you are conditioned. You are taught language, customs, and right and wrong. You are filled with fears. This conditioning interferes with your psychic perception.
Frederick Lenz
Image
Kirshna says its better to be a winner than a loser. It runs counter to what a lot of people whould think, because they have watered down, quasi-religious ideas about that which creates in enlightenment.
Frederick Lenz
Image
For most people this is not a conscious process, it's an inner pull that takes place, that simply draws them there.
Frederick Lenz
Image
For most people the prohibitions are a good thing. But If you are able to maintain very powerful states of mind, then you'll find yourself in everything you see.
Frederick Lenz
Image
Love was where I learned to go beyond myself, through the arts, through relationships, through sexuality.
Frederick Lenz
Image
If you meditate you will change in ways that I cannot understand. But that is neither here nor there.
Frederick Lenz
Image
Psychic development is not a fanatical, freaky study, predicting the future, talking to UFOs, and being able to find out curious facts that are basically irrelevant to one's time in life.
Frederick Lenz
Image
It's a good idea to be in the physical presence of the enlightened teacher because it's not physical. You can hear the ocean from quite a ways away, but if you're standing right in front of it, it's easier.
Frederick Lenz
Image
If silence only conveys the Self, if all words and thoughts are illusions, why do we discuss it?
Frederick Lenz
Image
By asseting the creation myth, in which God is a man over ealier creation myths in which God was viewed as a woman, men hoped to prove that the position of supremacy that they had assumed was Divine Law.
Frederick Lenz
Image
Christ was crucified because he threatened the tonal of the time. He was killed because he threatened the established order of the political regime.
Frederick Lenz
Image
When you become angry at someone, your anger will actually have a power. You can hit somebody in a non-physical way and it can injure that being.
Frederick Lenz
Image
Buddhism is the study of power initially. It takes a certain amount of power to even know your potential - to have the sense that you can change the way you perceive.
Frederick Lenz
Image
Personal power is not the end of the process. It is a tool that you use to get someplace. The purpose of the car is not to live in the car, it is to drive you someplace you want to go.
Frederick Lenz
Image
The Tibetan Buddhist realization is that mind does not have any particular qualities or attributes of its own. It's clear - clear light.
Frederick Lenz
Image
I lived in a community where celibacy was the rule. My I saw many people asked to leave the ashram for so much as looking intensely at a member of the opposite sex.
Frederick Lenz