“We are many, many selves. We're not just a finite being. The selves don't necessarily speak in words. But they are you.” SelfSpeakMysticismFinite Author:Frederick Lenz
“Personal power is really the issue. It is only through tremendous attention to detail that you will be able to gain personal power and searing self-honesty.” SelfAbleAttentionIssuesHonestyGainsDetailsMysticismPersonal PowerAttention To DetailGaining Power Author:Frederick Lenz
“A lot of people who are involved in self-discovery lose energy to abusive teachers, to abusive friends and to entities, non-physical beings.” PeopleSelfEnergyLosesTeacherInvolvedLosingDiscoverySelf DiscoveryMysticismEntityAbusiveLosing Power Author:Frederick Lenz
“If you get in a battle with someone, you don't get their power if you win. Power is something that you have to acquire yourself, through self-inquiry and the practice of meditation.” IfsSelfWinningPracticeMeditationBuddhismBattleAcquireInquiry Author:Frederick Lenz
“Each one of you has created a sense of self. That's what the tonal does. Each one of you is taught a system of maintenance that has been developed by humankind from your birth till your death.” DoeHas BeensSelfTaughtBuddhismBirthHumankindSense Of SelfMaintenance Author:Frederick Lenz
“Buddhism suggests there are no elect. Everything rests upon your own self-effort, which is the good news because that means you don't have to wait around for some nebulous God to help you.” MeanSelfHelpingWaitingEffortBuddhismNewsBuddhistGood NewsCosmology Author:Frederick Lenz
“Self discovery doesn't not seek to bring you answers about your personal life or philosophically comfort you about life and death. What it does is bring you into reality as perception itself.” DoeSelfRealityAnswersComfortPerceptionDiscoverySelf DiscoveryBuddhistLife And DeathPersonal LifeCosmology Author:Frederick Lenz
“The Buddhist mindset seeks to eliminate the self. That is to say, what we want to experience is life, not self. When there's less self and more life, we're very content, and when there's more self and less life we're quite unhappy.” WantSelfMindsetUnhappyBuddhistCosmology Author:Frederick Lenz
“As long as we remain self-reflective and keep looking at who and what we are, as long as we keep our analysis that way, then there's no freedom. We're just trying clothes on in front of a mirror and admiring them.” WayTryingLongSelfFrontsClothesMirrorsBuddhistAnalysisCosmologyAdmiring Author:Frederick Lenz
“Purity is innocence, the innocence of lack of self. Desire is innocent unless it's connected with self.” SelfDesireBuddhismConnectedInnocentInnocencePurity Author:Frederick Lenz
“The anti-pleasure movement in self-discovery is very strong. I have big news for them, if they ever get to enlightenment, which is unlikely the way they're approaching it, they're going to find that enlightenment is very pleasurable.” IfsWaySelfBigsStrongPleasureMovementBuddhismNewsEnlightenmentDiscoverySelf DiscoveryVery StrongUnlikelyBig News Author:Frederick Lenz
“Chanting a mantra at the beginning of your meditation helps you clear the mind and takes you deep within the self. Chanting a mantra at the end of meditation helps you seal the meditation. It helps you bring the awareness of the meditation down into your daily life.” MindEndsSelfHelpingClearMeditationAwarenessBuddhismDaily LifeSealsMantrasDeep WithinChanting Author:Frederick Lenz
“The force that drives the green fuse, as Dylan Thomas said, cannot be understood. So self-discovery is to accept your daily meditation, to observe yourself meditating and not be concerned with the results.” SaidSelfForceResultsAcceptingMeditationBuddhismUnderstoodDiscoveryConcernedGreenSelf DiscoveryDylanMeditatingFuseDaily Meditation Author:Frederick Lenz
“Everything is part of one web, one matrix of existence, beyond discussion. This is our true self in its undifferentiated form.” SelfFormExistenceDiscussionTaoismTrue Self Author:Frederick Lenz
