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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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“Nobody can make you happy but yourself. Things occupy us, people occupy us, but they don't make us happy. If we are honest, what makes us happy is to experience spirit.”

People Ifs Happiness Spirit Honest Buddhism Make You Happy

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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.”

Feels Feelings Happiness Answers Loneliness Creation Buddhism Ego Overcoming Ecstasy

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“Ecstasy should not be viewed as an unusual experience, but rather a natural experience - feeling all of the living matrix of existence around us.”

Should Feelings Happiness Natural Existence Buddhism Ecstasy Unusual

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“You want to be happy; of course, that isn't how you get to be happy; because if you want to be happy, you are going to be sitting around being unhappy because you're not happy.”

Ifs Want Happiness Courses Buddhism Sitting Unhappy Not Happy Sitting Around Want To Be Happy Being Unhappy

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You don't have to do anything to be happy, nor do you have to avoid anything. Happiness comes from within your mind. Happiness already exists.”

Mind Happiness Buddhism

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“My god, life is beautiful! Look at the colors! if you are blind, look at the colors of your mind.”

Ifs Mind Looks Beautiful Happiness Life Is Color Buddhism Blind God Life Life Is Beautiful

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Just to exist, just to be, to take a breath, to feel that, whether its pleasure or pain, loss or gain, just your experience in life is unique to you. No one sees life like you do.”

Feels Pain Happiness Life Is Loss Pleasure Like You Buddhism Unique Gains Breaths

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Happiness is in the mind and the mind is the universe. Your mind is the universe, not just this physical universe that you perceive through your senses.”

Mind Happiness Universe Buddhism Senses Perceive

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“Happiness will come through the practice of yoga and Buddhism, that happiness is not something you will lose at the end of this lifetime. It will stay with you.”

Ends Happiness Loses Practice Buddhism Yoga Lifetime

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“Happiness is found principally in meditation. Let your mind flow out into eternity. You have to exert some effort. Then you will notice a subtle smile on your face.”

Mind Happiness Faces Found Effort Meditation Buddhism Flow Eternity Subtle Your Face Smile On Your Face

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Happiness has to do with how quickly you vibrate, how intelligent you are, how subtle your awareness field is, how deep you are, how aware of your eternal part you are.”

Happiness Awareness Fields Buddhism Eternal Intelligent Subtle Vibrate

Author:Frederick Lenz

“People are unhappy because they don't understand life; by happy, I mean complete, aware, conscious, poignant, caring, loving, unaffected, cosmic, simplistic, humble, excited, passive - everything. You are everything.”

People Mean Happiness Buddhism Conscious Humble Excited Caring Unhappy Cosmic Passive Poignant

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Happiness is separate from daily experience. If picking the right door on the game show makes you happy, then you will be unhappy in the future because eventually you will pick a wrong door.”

Ifs Shows Happiness Games Doors Buddhism Picks Unhappy Make You Happy Game Shows Daily Experience

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“Happiness is just being you, where you are right now. Allow yourself to be you. Shut off all the silly thoughts and desires and crazy emotions”

Happiness Desire Emotion Crazy Buddhism Right Now Silly Where You Are Be You Just Being Just Being You

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There is a whole crazy world around you. You can't control it, so don't even try. Because the more you try to control your environment, the more it controls you.”

World Trying Whole Happiness Environment Crazy Buddhism Our Environment Crazy World

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There are no problems, there is only confusion. When confusion passes away, there is only happiness. Happiness is not complicated at all.”

Problem Happiness Buddhism Complicated Confusion No Problem Passing Away

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“Stop trying to do things that will make you happy. Happiness is a state of mind; because otherwise, you are a slave to circumstance.”

Trying Mind States Happiness Buddhism Circumstances Slave State Of Mind Make You Happy Stop Trying

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“Happiness does not mean that everything works out. Usually nothing works out, but you get a kick out of it anyway.”

Mean Doe Happiness Buddhism Work Out Kicks Things Work Out Everything Works Out

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“Happiness is not dependent upon outer circumstance. Happiness is falling in love with everything around you, everything inside of you.”

Happiness Fall Buddhism Circumstances Falling In Love Dependent

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Happiness does not come from external things as we're really taught as children. It doesn't come from Santa Claus. Happiness is from within your mind. Just realizing that will change your whole life.”

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“Let us say your wife, husband, boyfriend, girlfriend makes you happy. If they leave, you're bound to be unhappy. You are the slave of the thing that makes you happy. You are a junkie and human relationships can be expensive habits.”

Ifs Humans Happiness Wife Buddhism Habit Husband Slave Bounds Unhappy Girlfriend Expensive Make You Happy Human Relations Human Relationships Junkie

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Happiness is something that you can definitely achieve. At first, it will just come for a moment or two. Then it will come for longer periods of time. Eventually you will be happy all of the time.”

Firsts Two Moments Happiness Achieve Buddhism Periods

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Happiness is a state of mind. The key to happiness is being able to disconnect your life from your perceptions. If you saw things as they really were, you would be happy automatically.”

Ifs Mind States Would Be Able Happiness Saws Buddhism Keys Perception State Of Mind Key To Happiness

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Real happiness is something most people never know. What we experience in deep meditation, that ecstasy is beyond what human beings call happiness”

People Knows Humans Real Happiness Human Beings Meditation Buddhism Ecstasy Real Happiness Deep Meditation

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The pathway to enlightenment is happiness. It doesn't really matter if you're successful, if you're in prison, if you're dying - if you have contact with light.”

Ifs Matter Light Happiness Successful Dying Buddhism Enlightenment Prison Contact Pathways

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Love is the only rule in self-discovery. If you've forgotten that rule, you've forgotten everything. It's not what you can get; it's what you can give.”

Ifs Giving Self Happiness Love Is Buddhism Discovery Forgotten Self Discovery

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There is no reason not to love. There is no reason not to be joyous. There is no reason not to celebrate because all of this means nothing, absolutely nothing. So why not be happy?”

Mean Reason Happiness Buddhism Celebrate No Reason Why Not Joyous Absolutely Nothing

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Love is the only antidote for the insanity of this world. And the funny thing about love is that when someone loves you, it doesn't necessarily make you feel better; but when you love someone else, it does.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Love is light in the inner worlds; it is energy, a luminescent energy that is the basis of all creation. Love is the only thing in this world that is worthwhile because it is the only thing in this world that is eternal.”

World Light Happiness Energy Love Is Creation This World Buddhism Eternal Bases Worthwhile Inner World

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“Love is self-realization. Love is liberation. The only way beyond time, to unravel the knot of existence, is to love.”

Way Self Happiness Love Is Existence Buddhism Self Realization Realization Liberation Knots

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“Let the rain of unhappy and tragic experiences fall, as sometimes it inevitably must, even in the lives of the enlightened masters. If your mind has become one with nirvana, you will remain happy at all times.”

Ifs Mind Sometimes Happiness Fall Masters Buddhism Rain Unhappy All Time Tragic Enlightened

Book:Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

“Happiness is only gained when your mind is in extended states of attention, when your mind is merging with the infinite.”

Mind States Happiness Attention Buddhism Infinite Merging

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Stop being jealous, I mean, to be jealous is to suggest that God doesn't know what she is doing. This is ridiculous! She does everything perfectly”

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“Forgiveness is the best revenge.”

Happiness Buddhism Revenge Best Revenge

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“Happiness is not dependent on experience. What you experience shouldn't make you happy or unhappy when you know how to be happy.”

Knows Happiness Know How Buddhism Unhappy Dependent Make You Happy How To Be Happy

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“Happiness is not the same as pleasure. Pleasure is an immediate experience, very transient in nature, that's enjoyable, and if we experience a great deal of it - there's a sense of satiation.”

Ifs Happiness Pleasure Deals Buddhism Enjoyable Transient Satiation

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Sometimes it is hard to see in life. If the fog rolls in we can't see anything. Most people get caught up in life that they forget the purpose of life is to be happy.”

People Ifs Sometimes Hard Happiness Life Is Purpose Forget Buddhism Caught Purpose Of Life Caught Up Fog

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Unhappiness is really an incorrect way of seeing. When we are unhappy we don't see life as it really is. We are in a condition of veiled light, of shadows.”

Way Light Happiness Seeing Conditions Buddhism Shadow Unhappy Unhappiness

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“Consistency is nice, I think, personally. I like to be consistently happy. I like to be consistently more aware and more conscious of the truth.”

Thinking Happiness Nice Buddhism Conscious Consistently Consistency

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Discrimination means keeping the negative and unhappy thoughts away and allowing the pretty thoughts to come inside you.”

Mean Happiness Buddhism Negative Unhappy Discrimination Allowing Happy Thoughts

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“You must constantly check that you are meditating properly, and not become, what Clint Eastwood refers to as, "a legend in your own mind."”

Mind Happiness Buddhism Checks Legends Meditating

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“Don't just sit there. Go do something and don't expect that it's going to be fun unless you make it fun. You have got to work on things. That is when you are happy.”

Happiness Fun Buddhism

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“Happiness is something that you don't postpone. If you are postponing happiness - it is something you will probably never experience much of.”

Ifs Happiness Buddhism Postponing

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“The worst thing you can do is to sit and brood and feel sorry for yourself. Nor should you feel wrong about doing this, since all of us do from time to time.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“The nuns taught me that the best thing you can do in life when things get difficult is to work.”

Happiness Difficult Can Do Taught Buddhism Best Things Nun

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“To occupy yourself with tasks that are useful to yourself and others, you can get your mind off your problems.”

Mind Problem Happiness Buddhism Tasks Occupy Yourself

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“Take a yoga class, study different forms of self-discovery. Some people are crazy and fanatical, avoid them. People who are balanced and calm and introspective, associating with them will raise your energy level.”

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“Walk in nature. Take the time to be still. Practicing arts, arranging flowers, doing some drawing, working on a computer, brings a sense of stillness into your life.”

Art Stills Happiness Walks Flower Buddhism Computer Drawing Stillness Life Happiness Arranging Walks In Nature

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“Find things that make you feel still, that make you feel good.”

Feels Stills Happiness Buddhism Feel Good Make You Feel Good

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“Happiness is everything in the whole universe. It's a state of mind. Your whole life is a state of mind. So be happy, why not?”

Mind States Whole Happiness Life Is Universe Buddhism Whole Life Why Not State Of Mind

Author:Frederick Lenz

About the Author

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

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