“Some people just chase the glittery stuff and they have no substance to their life whatsoever. Actually all they really want is power. But they pretend they're interested in enlightenment.” PeopleWantStuffBuddhismBalanceEnlightenmentSubstance Author:Frederick Lenz
“A lot of people trash their subtle physical body with psychedelic drugs. While they do certainly give you experiences in altered levels of attention, you pay a price for it. They definitely screw up the subtle physical. Hatha Yoga can be good for that.” PeopleGivingBodyLevelsPayAttentionBuddhismBalanceDrugYogaBe GoodSubtleScrewsTrashPsychedelicAlteredScrew UpsPhysical BodyPsychedelic DrugsHatha Yoga Author:Frederick Lenz
“There are billions of people on the earth and there are billions of earths, billions of universes. It is endless.” PeopleWorldEarthUniverseBuddhismBillionsEndlessOther Worlds Author:Frederick Lenz
“Most people are completely oblivious to eternity. They look at the sky at night and they think that's eternity; it is just the senses having contact in the sense world. There are other dimensions.” PeopleThinkingWorldLooksNightSkyBuddhismEternitySensesContactDimensionsOther WorldsOblivious Author:Frederick Lenz
“There are countless dimensions filled with beings of other orders. Now this may sound peculiar to some people, but it was only several hundred years ago that we invented something called the microscope. Since then worlds whose existence we did not suspect have become commonplace” PeopleWorldYearsMayOrderSoundExistenceBuddhismHundredYears AgoFilledDimensionsSuspectsPeculiarCommonplaceOther WorldsMicroscopes Author:Frederick Lenz
“Reality does appear to exist, there does appear to be birth, youth, people appear to have children. But all of it's a dream. These are isolated moments that are only connected by perception. There is no separation.” PeopleChildrenDoeMomentsDreamRealityAwarenessYouthBuddhismBirthPerceptionConnectedSeparationIsolated Author:Frederick Lenz
“If we put five people together, are there really five people? I don't think so, not in the world of magic. In the worlds of magic, there is only one being, reflecting itself in countless forms.” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldTogetherFormFiveMagicAwarenessBuddhismReflecting Author:Frederick Lenz
“When most people see a tree, they don't see a tree at all. They see an idea that they have developed of what a tree is.” PeopleIdeasTreeAwarenessBuddhism Author:Frederick Lenz
“Most people are not in the world of awe and wonder. They're in the world of deadness. Their perceptual fields and bodies are completely self-reflective, and all they see is themselves wherever they go.” PeopleWorldSelfBodyWonderAwarenessFieldsBuddhismAweAwe And Wonder Author:Frederick Lenz
“There have been people who have categorized the bands of perception in different yogic systems. It gives them pleasure to create names and orders and to make catalogs. Human beings like that.” PeopleGivingHumansHas BeensDifferentOrderNamesHuman BeingsPleasureAwarenessBuddhismBandPerception Author:Frederick Lenz
“A whole society imprints us. Language, television and culture imprints us Just living in a country is a vibratory imprint. All the collective attentions, of all the people who live there - imprint us.” PeopleCountryWholeCultureLanguageAttentionAwarenessTelevisionBuddhismCollectives Author:Frederick Lenz
“The people who imprinted us are not completely happy and they are not completely powerful. So naturally, we have to fight our whole life against that imprinting.” PeopleWholeFightingPowerfulAwarenessBuddhismWhole LifeImprinting Author:Frederick Lenz
“We live in a world filled with automobiles, highways of the mind, urban disasters, billions of people living on a tiny planet, sharing the diminishing natural resources of the earth.” PeopleWorldMindEarthHumanityNaturalPlanetsBuddhismResourcesFilledBillionsTinyDisasterUrbanHighwaysAutomobileLiving OnNatural Resources Author:Frederick Lenz
“We remember a few people who've been enlightened. We build churches and edifices in their name. But few people, if any, feel that they could ever be like that; and if that's how they feel - that's how it will be.” PeopleIfsFeelsRememberHumanityNamesChurchBuddhismEnlightenedEdifice Author:Frederick Lenz
“In the West people are basically oblivious to power, solstices, enlightenment and everything that matters.” PeopleMatterHumanityBuddhismEnlightenmentWestObliviousSolstice Author:Frederick Lenz
“Everything is stuck together. People are stuck together. They can't change. Ideas are stuck together - they're irrevocable. We think that the end of the universe is as far as the telescope can see.” PeopleThinkingIdeasEndsTogetherHumanityUniverseBuddhismStuckCan't ChangeTelescopesIrrevocable Author:Frederick Lenz
“This world we exist in is populated by people who have really shut themselves off from life.” PeopleWorldHumanityThis WorldBuddhism Author:Frederick Lenz
“People think they can tame the earth. How absurd! The vanity of human wishes is endless. It is more fun to dance with life.” PeopleThinkingHumansEarthHumanityFunWishBuddhismEndlessAbsurdVanity Author:Frederick Lenz
“People on this planet are currently preparing to blow themselves up in ultimate thermonuclear wars. We are living among beings whose state of mind is destruction.” PeopleMindWarStatesHumanityPlanetsBuddhismDestructionUltimateBlowState Of MindPreparingNuclear War Author:Frederick Lenz
“People are kept in line in society because they fear punishment. The assumption that underlies this mentality is that a human being will follow their desires without mitigation.” PeopleHumansDesireHumanityLinesHuman BeingsBuddhismPunishmentAssumptionMentality Author:Frederick Lenz
“Obstructions on the way to enlightenment, are you kidding? Hey, they crucify people here. You think this is an easy place?” PeopleThinkingWayHumanityEasyBuddhismEnlightenmentHeyObstruction Author:Frederick Lenz
“Whether it's a fully enlightened Christ or Buddha, or just a more aware Martin Luther King, Kennedy or Gandhi, what did they do with them here? They shoot them, crucify them, and get them out of the way because people are afraid of truth.” PeopleWayHumanityChristBuddhismKingsEnlightenedLuther Author:Frederick Lenz
“Spiritual people are often persecuted because of their beliefs. Christians were fed to the lions. Jews were slaughtered in concentration camps. Various forms of persecution still exist today throughout the world.” PeopleWorldStillsTodayChristianSpiritualFormHumanityBeliefBuddhismJewVariousConcentrationFedsLionsCampsPersecutionPersecutedConcentration Camp Author:Frederick Lenz
“Humanity actually has the gall to feel they are more advanced than they were; technology somehow defines intelligence. If technology enables you to kill more people, that doesn't define intelligence. An intelligent species survives.” PeopleIfsFeelsHumanityTechnologyBuddhismIntelligentSpecies Author:Frederick Lenz
“In our world, in our pre-World War III condition, meditation is considered a cult activity and people who practice self-discovery are actually persecuted and ridiculed.” PeopleWorldWarSelfHumanityPracticeMeditationConditionsBuddhismActivityDiscoverySelf DiscoveryWar Of The WorldsOur WorldWorld War IiWorld War ICultPersecuted Author:Frederick Lenz
“There is a world of deaf, dumb and blind people out there, who are shuffling through their lives, not knowing how wonderful life can be. They have their moments, but they are very unconscious.” PeopleWorldMomentsHumanityKnowingWonderfulBuddhismBlindDumbUnconsciousNot KnowingDeafWonderful LifeShufflingBlind People Author:Frederick Lenz
“That's why we call this a dark age. It's a dark age in the sense that there are so many people on the earth who are un-attuned that they create such a level of white noise, in a sense, that it drowns out things that we'd like to see.” PeopleAgeEarthHumanityDarkWhiteLevelsBuddhismNoiseDark AgesWhite Noise Author:Frederick Lenz
“Very few people are happy in this world. Most are miserable. Even in their so-called happiness, they are unhappy; it is so short of ecstasy, of god-consciousness; it's almost pitiful.” PeopleWorldHumanityConsciousnessThis WorldBuddhismUnhappyMiserableEcstasyPitiful Author:Frederick Lenz
“What these people do here is obviously not working. They sit in their commuter traffic hour after hour. They make the earth a toxic waste dump.” PeopleEarthHumanityHoursBuddhismWasteToxicTrafficDumpAfter HoursToxic Waste Author:Frederick Lenz
“When we see a hero, on the one hand, we applaud them; on the other hand, there is something in a lot of people that wants to tear the hero down.” PeopleWantHandsHumanityTearsBuddhismHero Author:Frederick Lenz
“The aura of billions of people coats all experiences like a thick cloud of smog. Just to live on the earth is to live in that smog.” PeopleEarthHumanityBuddhismCloudsBillionsThickCoatsAurasSmog Author:Frederick Lenz
“Slow down. Enjoy life. It's tough to slow down if your mind is going a million miles a second. It's tough to slow down if you think what these people do here matters.” PeopleIfsThinkingMindMatterHumanityEnjoyMillionsBuddhismMindfulnessToughMilesEnjoy LifeSlow Down Author:Frederick Lenz
“The best thing that you can do to deal with these high speed times is to slow down, inwardly, to take a little more time for meditation, a little more time to enjoy your morning cup of coffee or tea, and to look around at the people in your life with a little more love.” PeopleLooksLittlesHumanityEnjoyCan DoDealsMorningMeditationBuddhismSpeedCoffeeCupsTeaBest ThingsMore TimeSlow DownCoffee CupPeople In Your LifeHigh Speed Author:Frederick Lenz
“We feel crowded by other people; we feel crowded by social rules; we feel crowded by ourselves, mainly.” PeopleFeelsHumanitySocialBuddhismCrowded Author:Frederick Lenz
“When a civilization, a race, a people, a society, when they lack love, they are soon destroyed.” PeopleHumanityRaceBuddhismCivilizationDestroyed Author:Frederick Lenz
“People don't really want to be happy. They go out of their way to be miserable.” PeopleWayWantHappinessBuddhismMiserableWant To Be Happy Author:Frederick Lenz
“Most people have no idea how unhappy they are because they don't know what happiness is. When they get a little break from their total pain, they feel a little better and they call it happiness.” PeopleKnowsFeelsLittlesIdeasPainHappinessSufferingBreakBuddhismUnhappyNo Idea Author:Frederick Lenz
“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.” PeopleIfsHappinessSpiritHonestBuddhismMake You Happy 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.” PeopleMeanHappinessBuddhismConsciousHumbleExcitedCaringUnhappyCosmicPassivePoignant 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” PeopleKnowsHumansRealHappinessHuman BeingsMeditationBuddhismEcstasyReal HappinessDeep Meditation 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.” PeopleIfsSometimesHardHappinessLife IsPurposeForgetBuddhismCaughtPurpose Of LifeCaught UpFog Author:Frederick Lenz
“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.” PeopleDifferentSelfHappinessFormEnergyLevelsClassStudyCrazyBuddhismYogaDiscoveryRaisesCalmSelf DiscoveryBalancedIntrospectiveEnergy Levels Author:Frederick Lenz
“Most people think happiness comes from experiences in the world. The fulfillment of desire causes a type of happiness. But as soon as they experience passes, the happiness passes.” PeopleThinkingWorldHappinessDesireCausesBuddhismTypeFulfillment Author:Frederick Lenz
“How can you possibly be happy if you think you're a person? Because we all know, just by definition, that people are definitely not happy because they take everything too seriously. They take themselves seriously.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsPersonsHappinessBuddhismDefinitionsNot Happy Author:Frederick Lenz
“You don't have to take drugs to be happy. You don't have to drink to be happy. You don't have to have people around you who love you to be happy. You don't need anything except the clarity of your own mind.” PeopleNeedsMindHappinessLove YouBuddhismDrinkDrugClarity Author:Frederick Lenz
“Nature is our friend - trees, squirrels, grass, fields, meadows, oceans - without people. Hike. Walk. Stroll. Bike. Swim. Be in a still place and feel eternity. Have a great time. Just feel it.” PeopleFeelsStillsNatureWalksTreeFieldsBuddhismOceanEternityGrassSwimBikeGreat TimesMeadowsSquirrels Author:Frederick Lenz
“Spend time alone in areas of low population density, where you can feel the stillness. Go out into the desert or up into the mountains or to the ocean where there aren't too many people.” PeopleFeelsNatureBuddhismMountainOceanLowsAreasPopulationDesertStillnessEnd TimesSpend TimeMe AloneAlone TimeDensityPopulation Density Author:Frederick Lenz
“You don't need to be recluse and stay away from people. But you have to set aside a lot of time for stillness. That is the only place there is real fulfillment. You need to slow it down.” PeopleNeedsRealNatureBuddhismFulfillmentStillnessRecluse Author:Frederick Lenz
“If you thrive on the city energy it is necessary to leave the city frequently and to walk in parks, to get away from people. You are more sensitive than you realize. Find a spot that makes you happy.” PeopleIfsEnergyNatureRealizingWalksCitiesBuddhismSpotsSensitiveParksThriveGet AwayMake You HappyWalks In The Park Author:Frederick Lenz
“It is only when we are by ourselves that we can know others. When we are with other human beings we are distracted. People try and dream us into their dreams.” PeopleKnowsTryingHumansDreamNatureHuman BeingsBuddhismDistracted Author:Frederick Lenz
