“It's not logical, self-realization. If it was, everybody would be self-realized because everybody is logical.” IfsInspirationalSelfWould BeBuddhismSelf RealizationRealizationLogical Author:Frederick Lenz
“You are your state of mind. Your state of mind creates your view, or your window, on life.” InspirationalMindStatesViewsInspirational LifeBuddhismWindowState Of Mind Author:Frederick Lenz
“I offer you the possibilities of immortality, a pathway that leads beyond the known and the unknown, few follow it.” InspirationalKnownPossibilityBuddhismOffersImmortalityPathways Author:Frederick Lenz
“If you are trying to aid people in the process of self-discovery, what you have to do is confound them with so many concepts that are contradictory, yet each make complete sense in its own right.” PeopleIfsInspirationalTryingSelfProcessBuddhismConceptsDiscoveryAidsSelf DiscoveryContradictory Author:Frederick Lenz
“Reason is a terrible trap because you will be satisfied with answers. And if you are satisfied with answers, you'll never come to know what life really is.” IfsKnowsInspirationalReasonAnswersBuddhismTerribleSatisfiedMysticismTraps Author:Frederick Lenz
“There are so many traps. There are so many opportunities. Life is a river and we take our boat and we go down it.” InspirationalLife IsOpportunityBuddhismRiversBoatTraps Author:Frederick Lenz
“Success and failure are terrible traps.” InspirationalBuddhismTerribleTrapsSuccess And Failure Author:Frederick Lenz
“Everything we see is an illusion. Even our perceptions of truth are illusory, illusory in the sense they're not complete.” InspirationalBuddhismPerceptionIllusionIllusory Author:Frederick Lenz
“How strange it is to be human. For a short moment we are conscious of the glories of life then we become silent again. Perhaps there is more. Look more deeply into the matter.” InspirationalHumansLooksMatterMomentsStrangeBuddhismGloryConsciousSilentReincarnation Author:Frederick Lenz
“You can lead an uncommonly fine life. But it takes determination. You have to march to the beat of different drummer. You have to decide.” InspirationalDifferentBuddhismFineBeatsDeterminationMarchDrummer Author:Frederick Lenz
“We have the possibility of being far removed from what we are, of beginning to taste it and feel it. That is direct knowledge. That is truth. Anything else is mere words.” InspirationalFeelsPossibilityBuddhismTasteDirectMere Author:Frederick Lenz
“I would encourage you to follow the pathway to enlightenment, to learn to meditate, to practice mindfulness, and not to really care what anybody thinks about you, including yourself.” ThinkingInspirationalCarePracticeBuddhismMindfulnessEnlightenmentIncludingPathways Author:Frederick Lenz
“These are the mysterious ways of knowledge, power and enlightenment. I can only allude to them in words. I cannot possibly explain what this process is like.” WayInspirationalI CanProcessBuddhismEnlightenmentMysteriousMysterious WaysPower Of Knowledge Author:Frederick Lenz
“Most people are fragile. They're fragile in the sense that they're afraid of the unknown, so they cling to each other. They cling to families, traditions, ways of seeing life that protect them from the immensity of the unknown” PeopleWayInspirationalSeeingBuddhismProtectTraditionFragileImmensityFamily Tradition Author:Frederick Lenz
“If you think you are a vile slime, that means that you aspire to something higher...It's because you have a sense of perfection, and you obviously want that, that you find something wrong.” IfsThinkingWantInspirationalMeanBuddhismHigherPerfectionAspireSlime Author:Frederick Lenz
“Opinions are secondary when dealing with reality. They're subjective reflections.” InspirationalRealityOpinionBuddhismReflectionSubjective Author:Frederick Lenz
“There's no difference between winning and losing. They are the same type of experience. Winning and losing are sensorial, affixed to an ego, blocked in time and space and none of them ultimately make you happy very long” InspirationalLongWinningDifferencesSpaceBuddhismTypeEgoLosingTime And SpaceMake You HappyBlockedWinning And Losing Author:Frederick Lenz
“There are really only three important things to remember in life: To care, to share, and to be fair. This is not a new idea at all, and yet, observing how most people live their lives, you might think it was.” PeopleThinkingInspirationalImportantIdeasMightCareRememberThreeShareBuddhismFairsImportant ThingsNew IdeasObserving Author:Frederick Lenz
“The surface personality is only the beginning of what we are. So as we meditate, we still that surface personality, we can see beyond it, and we see that we encompass multitudes.” InspirationalStillsBuddhismPersonalitySurfaceMultitudes Author:Frederick Lenz
“How to unravel the knot of reality? Slowly and patiently. You cannot run away from it. You cannot run towards it. Yet truth runs in your footsteps. It is the face in the mirror, the light of the sun, the winter rainstorms, the heat of summer in the city” InspirationalRealityLightRunningFacesCitiesSunBuddhismSummerMirrorsWinterHeatRunning AwayFootstepsKnotsRainstorms Author:Frederick Lenz
“Don't run away from the world. The world is God. Don't run towards the world. God is the void. Don't be afraid of the complexities of this life, nor the stark simplicity of death.” WorldInspirationalRunningBuddhismSimplicityThis LifeComplexityRunning AwayVoidStarks Author:Frederick Lenz
“You are not what you seem to be. You are one of God's endless dreams in search of wakefulness. Meditation is wakefulness.” InspirationalDreamSeemsMeditationBuddhismEndlessBe You Author:Frederick Lenz
“You are a fluid metaphor for existence. You are your own death and your own rebirth. Here is forever. It never changes. We bring perpetual oblivion until we change the world.” WorldInspirationalExistenceForeverBuddhismMetaphorChanging The WorldPerpetualRebirthOblivionNever ChangeFluid Author:Frederick Lenz
“Be still, Be joyous, Celebrate creation, preservation and destruction; For these are the seasons of your life: Of your knowing and being.” InspirationalStillsKnowingCreationBuddhismDestructionSeasonsCelebratePreservationJoyous Author:Frederick Lenz
“One day you will arrive at a station on the train of existence that you've always known has been there. You'll find there will be no train in sight, with no sense of arrival. There is only a perpetual arrival, a timeless condition of infinite awareness.” InspirationalHas BeensExistenceKnownConditionsAwarenessBuddhismOne DaySightInfiniteTrainStationsPerpetualTimelessArrivals Author:Frederick Lenz
“A part of us resists all of this and wants to make it sound as if it's much too religious, an arbitrary thing that we have to do with our life. This is nonsense. This is the real fun.” IfsWantInspirationalRealFunSoundReligiousOur LivesBuddhismNonsenseArbitrary Author:Frederick Lenz
“Self-discovery is realistic. It's not built on ideas and philosophies. It's what works. Philosophies are nice if you like philosophies. But self-discovery is predicated on something that really brings you into enlightened states of mind.” IfsInspirationalMindIdeasSelfStatesPhilosophyNiceBuddhismDiscoveryBuiltSelf DiscoveryEnlightenedRealisticState Of Mind Author:Frederick Lenz
“If you're a person who just wants to be in the world and doesn't want any knowledge, then I don't know what you are doing with this tape. Turn it off immediately.” IfsKnowsWorldWantInspirationalPersonsTurnsBuddhismTape Author:Frederick Lenz
