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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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“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.”

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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.”

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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.”

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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.”

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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.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“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.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“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.”

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

Inspirational Existence Buddhism Enlightenment Enlightened

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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.”

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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

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“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

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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

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“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

“We don't live forever. We have a limited energy. You have to determine those things that you direct your energy towards, otherwise you get yourself in too many places and nothing succeeds.”

Inspirational Energy Forever Buddhism Succeed Direct Determine Live Forever

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You can get stuck in one state of mind or a general area of mind for a thousand lifetimes. Some states of mind afford better views than others.”

Inspirational Mind States Views Buddhism Thousand Areas Lifetime Stuck State Of Mind

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You can just stay in oblivion, going through your days and your life and your experiences, staying with your friends, family. If that suits you, it's good. But for some people, it's not enough.”

People Ifs Inspirational Enough Buddhism Suits Staying Oblivion Family Friends Suits You

Author:Frederick Lenz

“One day you wake up and you decide you want to be different. You want a different life. You are tired of your old life. This is the truth. You will a change.”

Want Inspirational Different Buddhism One Day Wake Up Tired Different Life Old Life

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Don't follow the crowd. The crowd doesn't get there. They just run round and around in a crazy race. It never ends.”

Inspirational Ends Running Race Crazy Buddhism Rounds Crowds

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Trivial Pursuit means that you've got nothing going on in your life. Trivial Pursuit is more than a board game. It is the way most people live. Their lives are trivial pursuits.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Most people don't care much about enlightenment and the truth. They'd rather watch the Home Shopping Network, and maybe that's another kind of truth.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“You can stay in the safe, secure oblivion and pain of ignorance, not knowing, and just die. You'll just die, like everyone else, and shuffle into another incarnation that won't be very different.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“You have been programmed, brainwashed to see life in very specific forms. Life is endless and we are a body of perception. We are an awareness that is endless. The universe is only perception.”

Inspirational Has Beens Body Form Life Is Universe Awareness Buddhism Perception Endless Brainwashed

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There are other options that no one ever told you about. These are things mom and dad never explained to you; your teachers didn't know; they weren't enlightened. They weren't luminous beings that stood out of time and space.”

Knows Inspirational Space Teacher Buddhism Mom Dad Enlightened Time And Space Luminous Mom And Dad

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You will have to put aside some things in your life, habits, ideas, ways of seeing life. You will have to learn new things, and then new things and then new things - forever.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Self-knowledge, I guess, is hard. But I think pain is harder, personally. I think to be hopeless is very hard. I think to die without hope or to live without hope is very hard.”

Thinking Inspirational Self Hard Pain Dies Buddhism Harder Hopeless Self Knowledge Without Hope

Author:Frederick Lenz

“This is the most exciting study there is. It is the only thing I know of in life that makes you feel consistently better, whether it's success or failure, whether they love you or hate you.”

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“Psychic development makes you strong. It develops a common sense attitude in which you don't expose yourself to forces, people and situations that would drain you.”

People Inspirational Strong Force Common Attitude Situation Buddhism Development Common Sense Psychics Drains

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“As you evolve and develop your psychic abilities, you will enter into perceptions of life, truth, beauty and you will gain a power to live your life in an intelligent, perceptive and strong way.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Why waste your time being around people who drag you down? You don't live forever, at least in this life.”

People Inspirational Forever Inspirational Life Buddhism Waste This Life Drag Live Forever

Author:Frederick Lenz

“People who are drawn to meditation have had lots of incarnation in the world of experience, and we know the score. We know that experience is great, but it's not enough.”

People Knows World Inspirational Enough Meditation Buddhism Score Incarnation

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“You have probably had past lives where you were in better stages of mind than you are in now.”

Inspirational Mind Past Stage Buddhism Past Life

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You don't have to meditate. You don't have to practice self-discovery and Buddhism. You should only practice self-discovery if you really have had it with the human world.”

Ifs World Inspirational Should Humans Self Practice Buddhism Discovery Self Discovery

Author:Frederick Lenz

About the Author

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

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