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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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“You don't always have to be the winner, have everybody notice you. It's fun to dance alone sometimes.”

Inspirational Sometimes Fun Buddhism Winner

Author:Frederick Lenz

“As a human being you are capable of a higher level of perception than you may now be cognizant of. You are not really who you think you are. There are many selves inside you, not just one.”

Thinking Inspirational Humans May Self Human Beings Levels Buddhism Higher Perception Capable Just One Higher Level Cognizant

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You need something. Not just to get through the day, but to get through the incarnation. You need to find that power, that perfect unity.”

Inspirational Needs Perfect Buddhism Unity Incarnation

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There is a definite way to do this. There is a training program that you will go through and it's delightful. It's absolutely beautiful.”

Way Inspirational Beautiful Buddhism Training Program Definite Delightful Training Programs

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Take the level of dedication that anyone had to get to the top in any field, and apply it to self-discovery. Except that when you get to the top of anything else, it washes away. You will die. The only thing that stays with you forever is your awareness.”

Inspirational Self Dies Levels Forever Awareness Fields Buddhism Discovery Self Discovery Dedication

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The world won't necessarily change but your understanding of it will, and therefore the world will change. Your attention will no longer be confined to the physical body and the physical world.”

World Inspirational Body Understanding Attention Buddhism Confined Physical Body

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In the beginning what is necessary is to feel that there is something worthwhile to be attained otherwise we won't do it.”

Inspirational Feels Buddhism Worthwhile

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you are able to stop feeling sorry for yourself, and to contribute to the betterment of this world and of those around us, you will experience a high that is beyond my ability to express.”

Ifs World Inspirational Feelings Able Ability This World Buddhism Sorry Betterment Feeling Sorry Feeling Sorry For Yourself Stop Feeling Sorry For Yourself

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There is no end and there is no beginning. There is only eternity. Eternity can be warm. eternity can be cold and ruthless.”

Inspirational Ends Buddhism Cold Eternity Warm Ruthless

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You have to become a master or mistress of your mind.”

Inspirational Mind Masters Buddhism Mistress

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You can go through hundreds of lifetimes in one, and it all starts with daily meditation practice.”

Inspirational Practice Meditation Buddhism Lifetime Meditation Practice Daily Meditation

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you meditate deeply several times a day you will transform and change. You will find that you don't have to inspire yourself to do what is right because you have become what is right.”

Ifs Inspirational Inspire Buddhism

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“Experience is a great teacher. You will have to go through the trials and tribulations and the ecstasies and abandoned moments of wonderfulness that all of us did on the way to enlightenment.”

Way Inspirational Moments Teacher Buddhism Enlightenment Trials Ecstasy Abandoned Great Teacher Tribulation Trials And Tribulations

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The pathway to enlightenment leads to states of ecstasy, knowledge, and a pretty ironic sense of humor.”

Inspirational States Buddhism Enlightenment Sense Of Humor Ecstasy Ironic Pathways

Author:Frederick Lenz

“People on the pathway to enlightenment become very successful in whatever they approach, because they have learned to discipline the mind.”

People Inspirational Mind Successful Buddhism Discipline Approach Enlightenment Pathways

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There are different pathways - be it Zen, tantra, karma yoga, or jnana yoga. Different ways have been devised to do the same thing for different types of people according to their temperament.”

People Way Inspirational Has Beens Different Buddhism Type Yoga Karma Different Ways Temperament Pathways Karma Yoga Tantra

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We live in a world that is dominated by war, hate, violence and suspicion. Those are the things that come naturally in this world. So you have to will something else.”

World Inspirational War Hate Violence This World Buddhism Suspicion

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Your life can be horrible or it can be incredibly beautiful. It can be boring or exciting. It's seldom in between. Your active use of will determines what will happen to you in this and other lives.”

Inspirational Use Happens Beautiful Inspirational Life Buddhism Exciting Determine Boring Active Horrible

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you learn to lead your life strategically and strongly, you can overcome the opposition. But running away, you never overcome anything. The pathway to enlightenment is for the warrior, the samurai.”

Ifs Inspirational Running Buddhism Enlightenment Overcoming Warrior Opposition Running Away Pathways Samurai

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You might have a warrior spirit in there somewhere, and it's just waiting for the opportunity to come out. If you do, you might be a candidate for the pathway to enlightenment.”

Ifs Inspirational Might Spirit Opportunity Waiting Buddhism Enlightenment Warrior Candidates Pathways Warrior Spirit

Author:Frederick Lenz

“All of the energy of existence is going to flow through you. You will be in thousands of planes of consciousness at once or beyond in nirvana or having a sandwich with a friend.”

Inspirational Energy Existence Consciousness Buddhism Flow Planes Sandwiches

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You are not a singular self. You are a corporation. Inside you is eternity. A human being is not so simple.”

Inspirational Humans Self Human Beings Simple Buddhism Eternity Corporations

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You have thousands of selves inside you. Meditation is a process of peeling back the layers of the self. We start with peeling back the personality from this lifetime.”

Inspirational Self Process Meditation Buddhism Personality Lifetime Layers Peeling

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There are all these people running all over the planet who don't see what life is for, what their own lives are about, because they don't see psychically. Therefore, they miss most of the beauty of life.”

People Inspirational Running Life Is Missing Planets Inspirational Life Buddhism Beauty Of Life

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It's not going to be easy. It's the earth. What creates power in your life is when you perfect your mind, your career, and your associations with others.”

Inspirational Mind Earth Life Is Easy Perfect Careers Buddhism Association

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Each time you dip into the well of existence it changes you. Rapid mental development is that process. It is a process of escalating your evolution.”

Inspirational Wells Process Existence Buddhism Development Evolution Rapids Dip Escalating

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Redefine you. Oh God, life is so beautiful. Don't let it pass you by. Don't miss it. Don't miss it.”

Inspirational Beautiful Life Is Missing Buddhism God Life Life Is So Beautiful

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The real dance is within; it is within your mind. Everything is inside your mind. God is inside your mind.”

Inspirational Mind Real Buddhism

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The immortal silence is there always waiting for you and that spirit is deathless and courageous. Remember, many have trod the path that you are walking on and they succeeded. They were no better than you, no wiser.”

Inspirational Remember Spirit Waiting Silence Path Buddhism Walking Immortal Courageous Wiser Silence Is Better Than You Waiting For You Deathless Always Waiting

Author:Frederick Lenz

“They had the same fears that you have, the same aggressive tendencies and the same attachments, but they were freed in time because they believed.”

Inspirational Buddhism Tendencies Attachment Aggressive

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Never get so stuck in being responsible and mindful that you can't let it all go and run off chasing your private dream, if it leads to the shiny worlds, the worlds of beauty.”

Ifs World Inspirational Dream Running Buddhism Responsible Stuck Chasing Being Responsible

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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.”

Knows Inspirational Feels Children Ideas Feelings Young Know How Buddhism Picks Lifetime Impression Sensitivity Innate Young Children

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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

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

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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

Author:Frederick Lenz

About the Author

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

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