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Frederick Lenz was an American author known for his profound understanding and unique insights into Zen Buddhism. His works blended Zen philosophy with modern life, resonating with readers worldwide.

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“No one sees life like you do, because you are no one. You change constantly, like the light outside the window.”

Inspirational Light Like You Buddhism Window

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“When we are very young children we know how to feel. It's innate. But as we lead a lifetime, we pick up so many thoughts, impressions, feelings, and ideas, that our sensitivity goes away.”

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“When we open our heart up to someone, that energy, of course, comes into us.”

Inspirational Heart Courses Energy Buddhism

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Everyone feels some jealousy, some anger, and some hostility. Don't feel guilty. But to allow them to become dominant expressions of your way of life is off the wall.”

Way Inspirational Feels Life Is Expression Wall Buddhism Guilty Dominant Hostility Off The Wall

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Self-acceptance is involved in this process. You have got to be able to look at both your dark and your light side and not get enamored or depressed by either.”

Inspirational Looks Self Light Able Process Sides Dark Acceptance Buddhism Involved Self Acceptance Enamored

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Occupy yourself with what's in your life now. Address those situations and subjects as fully as possible with your best efforts. That is what produces happiness and clarity and knowledge and power.”

Inspirational Effort Situation Subjects Produce Buddhism Clarity Addresses Best Effort Knowledge And Power Occupy Yourself

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The average person just sees through their senses. The world is filled with wonderful mysteries and beauty. You need personal power to open up all of that, without it - these are just words.”

World Inspirational Needs Persons Wonderful Mystery Buddhism Filled Average Senses Average Person Personal Power

Author:Frederick Lenz

“A life that most people will never even know about can be yours in this study, but only if you approach it with equanimity, poise, grace, balance, and professionalism.”

People Ifs Knows Inspirational Study Grace Buddhism Balance Approach Professionalism Equanimity Poise

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It is the quick path. We turn everything inside out and upside down - which is when it gets straightened out very neatly and in an orderly fashion.”

Inspirational Turns Path Fashion Buddhism Upside Down Orderly

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“There is a certain degree of pain to be experienced in the search for self-knowledge, as there is a certain amount of joy. You just do it because you find yourself doing it. There just doesn't seem to be much else worthwhile.”

Inspirational Self Seems Pain Joy Certain Buddhism Amount Degrees Finding Yourself Worthwhile Self Knowledge Just Do It

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When you live in a psychic state of mind, you are happy. You don't have to do anything. Life is always beautiful, but we don't see it when we enter into lower states of mind that are, in effect, cloudy.”

Inspirational Mind States Beautiful Life Is Effects Buddhism State Of Mind Psychics Cloudy

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Words are deceptive. You think you understand something because it's explained to you and now you are under no obligation to do anything because you understand it.”

Thinking Inspirational Buddhism Obligation Deceptive

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The purpose of all of this is not to walk around with new vocabulary words, but to cause you to speculate on the marvel of your own being.”

Inspirational Purpose Causes Walks Buddhism Vocabulary Vocabulary Words

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In the study of consciousness you cannot explain anything verbally. You can only allude to, point in a general direction of.”

Inspirational Consciousness Study Buddhism Mysticism

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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.”

Inspirational Kids Young Language Seeing Taught Buddhism Perception Filled Customs Interfere Psychics Conditioning

Author:Frederick Lenz

“As a sensitive person around other people, you feel their desires, you feel their angers, and you feel their frustrations. You begin to believe that these desires, angers, and frustrations are yours.”

People Inspirational Feels Believe Persons Desire Buddhism Sensitive Frustration Sensitive Person Anger And Frustration

Author:Frederick Lenz

“All the billions of people who now inhabit our planet are putting a terrific strain on its aura, making it difficult, even for evolved people to become aware of their past-life knowledge and talents.”

People Inspirational Past Difficult Talent Planets Buddhism Billions Strain Terrific Our Planet Past Life Auras

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“You can be locked away in prison and be free if your mind is not a prison. Or you can be walking around with lots of credit cards and be in a prison, the prison of your own mind, the prison of your illusions.”

Ifs Inspirational Mind Buddhism Walking Illusion Prison Credit Cards Locked Credit Card

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I understand your higher and lower tendencies. There is something beyond all of this nonsense. There is a wonderful glitter that you can follow in life.”

Inspirational Wonderful Inspirational Life Buddhism Higher Tendencies Nonsense Glitter

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“Most people put the cart before the horse, which is an interesting way to go through life. They approach everything directly. In Zen we approach everything backwards or inside out.”

People Way Inspirational Interesting Buddhism Approach Horse Backwards Carts Interesting Ways

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you are a person who wants an uncommonly fine life, if you're willing to put in some time each day to do that, then that will happen to you.”

Ifs Want Inspirational Persons Happens Willing Buddhism Fine Each Day

Author:Frederick Lenz

“How do you develop your psychic abilities? Well, to begin with, naturally, you have to want to and believe that it is possible.”

Want Inspirational Believe Wells Ability Buddhism Psychics Psychic Abilities

Author:Frederick Lenz

“What more could there be, but the absolute beauty of our lives? Look around you, for heaven's sake and stop thinking. It is only in your thoughts and in analytical processes that you lose yourself.”

Thinking Inspirational Looks Heaven Process Loses Our Lives Buddhism Absolutes Sake Losing Yourself

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Life is wonder, endless, ceaseless wonder. If your energy level is low, then everything is gray, two-dimensional, boring, frustrating, and unhappy.”

Ifs Inspirational Two Life Is Energy Levels Wonder Buddhism Lows Boring Endless Unhappy Gray Frustrating Energy Levels

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I've lived in worlds where there are three or four suns. We had incredible sunsets, beautiful. But they weren't more beautiful than here, if my mind is more beautiful in each life.”

Ifs World Inspirational Mind Beautiful Three Sun Four Inspirational Life Buddhism Incredibles Sunset

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“Letting go is the hardest thing. Everybody is so afraid. They're so afraid of eternity. They're so afraid of life. They're so afraid of what's on the other side of death. There is nothing but light. God is everywhere.”

Inspirational Light Sides Buddhism Letting Go Eternity Hardest Hardest Thing Afraid Of Life Light God

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Everything depends on your state of awareness. If your state of awareness is low, then all the material success in the world won't help.”

Ifs World Inspirational States Helping Awareness Materials Buddhism Depends Lows

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“The whole quality of your life depends on your state of mind. There are very high states of mind that very few people experience. They are also quite pragmatic and practical and they make you more efficient at living and working in the world.”

People World Inspirational Mind States Whole Quality Buddhism Depends Practicals State Of Mind Efficient Pragmatic

Author:Frederick Lenz

“To become more aware, it is necessary to do something that you haven't done. Everything that you have done will only make you as aware as you are now.”

Inspirational Done Havens Buddhism

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“Anybody or anything can become enlightened because enlightenment is the very nature of existence itself.”

Inspirational Existence Buddhism Enlightenment Enlightened

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“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.”

Knows Want Inspirational Happens Secret Special Buddhism Fine Secret Life Special You

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You are everything and everyone. You are in all things. You exist in all conditions. You are the universe. You just think of yourself as existing within a temporal body”

Thinking Inspirational Body Universe Conditions Buddhism All Things Think Of You

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Be the exceptional being who separates themselves from the herd and the fate of the herd.”

Inspirational Fate Buddhism Exceptional Herds

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“You don't need anybody to tell you what is right or wrong. What you need, perhaps, is someone to show you how to come to those understandings.”

Inspirational Needs Shows Understanding Buddhism

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“You are on a vast wheel of birth and death. You have been through thousands of lifetimes, thousands yet to come.”

Inspirational Has Beens Buddhism Birth Lifetime Wheels Birth And Death

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Sometimes we can't do anything about our social condition, but we can do something about our condition of light.”

Inspirational Sometimes Light Social Can Do Conditions Buddhism Can Do Something Social Conditions

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Physical circumstance will not cause happiness. Or if it does, there is the fear of loss. Now you are a slave to it. You have become bound to it.”

Ifs Inspirational Doe Causes Loss Buddhism Circumstances Slave Bounds

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I know a lot of wealthy people in West Los Angeles. Money doesn't necessarily make you happy.”

People Knows Inspirational Buddhism West Los Angeles Wealthy Make You Happy

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“They are not happy out there. Take a walk today and look at how many people smile. Look at how troubled they are, unhappy, stressed out. Go through the ghetto or go through Beverly Hills.”

People Inspirational Looks Today Walks Buddhism Unhappy Hills Stressed Ghetto Not Happy Stressed Out Beverly Hills

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It's just not working. One nation trying to destroy another, one race trying to destroy another, one religion trying to destroy another - It's the same old story over and over again.”

Inspirational Trying Stories Nations Race Buddhism

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The life that we see on our small planet is not necessarily a great reflection of the entire universe. The people are beautiful, but they tend to destroy one another. That's not an operative principle in all dimensions.”

People Inspirational Beautiful Universe Principles Planets Buddhism Reflection Dimensions

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There are different pathways that lead to enlightenment. We could say that everyone's life is one of the pathways. Your life is a pathway that leads to enlightenment.”

Inspirational Different Life Is Buddhism Enlightenment Pathways

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There was a time when you came forth from infinity, your essence that is. You've always existed, and you'll always exist. But there are different states of mind in the universe.”

Inspirational Mind Different States Universe Buddhism Essence Infinity State Of Mind

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“People who are involved in self-discovery lead different types of lives. The lives they lead are not necessarily the lives of renunciation. Rather, it is a structuring of the elements in your life in a particular way.”

People Way Inspirational Different Self Success Careers Particular Buddhism Type Involved Elements Discovery Self Discovery Renunciation

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“There are many paths that lead to enlightenment. There are lesser enlightenments along the way to a larger enlightenment, referred to sometimes as liberation.”

Way Inspirational Sometimes Path Buddhism Enlightenment Liberation Many Paths

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Perfect mind, the diamond mind, radiating all universes through your being, each pulse beat is the universe, each breath, eternity. Enlightenment, try it. You'll like it!”

Inspirational Trying Mind Universe Perfect Buddhism Beats Enlightenment Eternity Breaths Diamond Pulse

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There are dark forces in the world that would have you believe that you can't succeed and that you're a failure and that you're evil and all this nonsense.”

World Inspirational Believe Evil Force Dark Buddhism Succeed Nonsense Dark Forces

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“There are no bad people; there are only bad states of mind.”

People Inspirational Mind States Buddhism State Of Mind Bad People

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“If you feel the purpose of life is struggle, Darwinian fitness, dog eat dog, then you will be eaten by a dog, or you will eat dog. You become what you focus on.”

Ifs Inspirational Feels Life Is Purpose Struggle Focus Dog Buddhism Purpose Of Life Life Is A Struggle

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In this lifetime you can lose everything. Everything passes here. But you don't lose any spiritual knowledge that you have gained in this or any other lifetime. It is inside you.”

Inspirational Spiritual Loses Buddhism Lifetime Spiritual Knowledge

Author:Frederick Lenz

About the Author

Born: February 9, 1950
Died: April 12, 1998
Known for: Author
Quotes: 4397

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