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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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“What we see in this world is a gross abnormality. The human consciousness fails to perceive the very simple, divine nature of every atom in every moment.”

World Humans Moments Humanity Simple Consciousness Failing This World Divine Buddhism Perceive Atoms Gross Human Consciousness Divine Nature Abnormality

Author:Frederick Lenz

“At every moment, you have the opportunity to crap out. The world will always tell you to play it safe and just be dead.”

World Play Moments Humanity Opportunity Buddhism Safe Crap

Author:Frederick Lenz

“A walk in the woods can reveal many things, and it is a good time to practice transcendentalism. Look at a tree and realize it's not just a tree, its roots may go into the ground but it may also go into other worlds, other eternities.”

World Looks May Humanity Realizing Walks Practice Tree Buddhism Roots Eternity Woods Good Times Other Worlds Transcendentalism Walk In The Woods

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In the world of interactive multi-media highways we are all traveling somewhere interactively and we are all shopping for something, our dreams, our hopes, our ambitions for ourselves, for those we love - these little scenarios we play out endlessly in our mind.”

World Mind Littles Play Dream Humanity Media Buddhism Ambition Shopping Our Dreams Highways Scenarios Those We Love Interactive

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The Network of Enlightenment watches over a world and guides it, tenderly. Not interfering in its natural course of evolution is our way.”

World Way Humanity Courses Natural Watches Buddhism Evolution Enlightenment Guides Interfere

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“Countless forms make up this network. In this world, there are few of us.”

World Form Humanity This World Buddhism

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“The world is entering another dark age. After 1985, the Maya will be so thick that it will be difficult to advance spiritually without a strong foundation.”

World Age Humanity Strong Difficult Dark Buddhism Foundation Thick Entering Dark Ages Strong Foundation

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There comes a time when a race of beings makes a decision. When they chose to reject enlightenment, it's the end of their world because the karma is inevitable. They have to destroy themselves.”

World Ends Humanity Decision Race Buddhism Enlightenment Karma Inevitable Rejects There Comes A Time

Author:Frederick Lenz

“God does everything perfectly. The world doesn't really need saving; it's exactly the way God wants it to be at the moment.”

World Way Want Needs Doe Moments Humanity Buddhism Saving

Author:Frederick Lenz

“As long as it's a world, it has laws. Why, I don't know, it's just the way it is. In Nirvana, there are no laws.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“How can you be happy in a world like this? You have got to be crazy to even attempt something like that.”

World Happiness Crazy Buddhism Being Crazy

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There is a whole crazy world around you. You can't control it, so don't even try. Because the more you try to control your environment, the more it controls you.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Love is the only antidote for the insanity of this world. And the funny thing about love is that when someone loves you, it doesn't necessarily make you feel better; but when you love someone else, it does.”

World Feels Doe Happiness Love Is Love You This World Buddhism Insanity Feel Better One Love Love Someone Funny Things Antidote When You Love Someone

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Love is light in the inner worlds; it is energy, a luminescent energy that is the basis of all creation. Love is the only thing in this world that is worthwhile because it is the only thing in this world that is eternal.”

World Light Happiness Energy Love Is Creation This World Buddhism Eternal Bases Worthwhile Inner World

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When you laugh at the world, the world dissolves.”

World Happiness Laughing Buddhism Nothingness

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Happiness is self-generated as the mind becomes still. As we become involved with the desires of the world, we lose that centering, that stillness.”

World Mind Stills Self Happiness Desire Loses Buddhism Involved Stillness Centering

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.”

People Thinking World Happiness Desire Causes Buddhism Type Fulfillment

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Learn to be happy in any and all circumstances, whether you're experiencing pleasure or pain, whether there's loss or gain, whether the world loves you or hates you. Learn to be happy.”

World Pain Happiness Hate Loss Pleasure Love You Buddhism Circumstances Gains Happy Being Happy Hate You Love Hate World Love Happiness Is A Choice

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Nature is the endless reflective pattern of existence in eternity. As I sit here watching the leaves and watching their patterns, I'm reminded of so many things I've seen in other planes and in other worlds.”

World Nature Existence Buddhism Eternity Patterns Endless Planes Other Worlds

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Have lots of plants in your house. Nature and plants understand something about stillness and silence. As you interact with the green world, you will find a peace will enter your life.”

World House Nature Silence Buddhism Green Plant Stillness Green World

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You can judge a civilization by its level of agreement with the green world. When people respect nature, it's a sign of a healthy situation. When they denigrate nature, it's a sign of an unhealthy civilization that will soon perish.”

People World Nature Levels Situation Judging Buddhism Civilization Healthy Green Agreement Unhealthy Green World

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Love is not reasonable. If we could assign it to the reasonable world, it would not be useful.”

Ifs World Love Is Buddhism Sexuality Reasonable

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It is a good idea to become involved with sports and athletics. It makes you strong. You need to be strong to deal with this world and the powers and forces that block enlightenment.”

World Needs Ideas Strong Force Sports Deals This World Health Buddhism Involved Enlightenment Block Good Ideas Athletics

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Linus Pauling would have us believe and perhaps correctly, that enough vitamin C will have us live another 20 or 30 years, I think the strongest power in the world is not vitamin C but the power of our own thoughts.”

Thinking World Years Believe Enough Health Buddhism Strongest Athletics Vitamins

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We live in a world of wars and wars alarms, of famines, of oppression. While there are many wonderful people in this world, you'll notice one curious fact about them, they all suffer, they all die, and sometimes those who are the nicest seem to suffer the most.”

People World Inspirational War Sometimes Facts Seems Suffering Dies Wonderful This World Buddhism Oppression Curious Alarms Famine

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You see, I'm a believer in the rhapsodic. I like things that are happy. For no particular reason, I just like them. Most people don't seem to be like that in this particular place, in this world. You can tell by what they focus on. Read a newspaper, watch a TV show, go to a movie, look at a life.”

People World Inspirational Looks Reason Shows Seems Watches Focus This World Particular Inspirational Life Tvs Buddhism Believer Newspapers Tv Shows

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The spectrum that most people exist in this world is very mundane and very unhappy. Certainly human beings are capable of experiencing great joy and happiness.”

People World Inspirational Humans Joy Human Beings This World Buddhism Capable Unhappy Spectrum Mundane Joy And Happiness Great Joy

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The world you experience, every day and night of your life, is transient. They only last for the blink of an eye, and then they dissolve back into that unknowable and formless eternity.”

World Inspirational Eye Lasts Life Is Night Buddhism Eternity Day And Night Blink Transient Blink Of An Eye

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

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

“Most human beings are completely out of touch with their spiritual nature and with the inner dimensions that exist within themselves. They don't realize each person has a soul, an inner core of light and intelligence as vast as the ten thousand worlds, whose inner nature is emptiness, ecstasy and happiness.”

World Inspirational Humans Persons Soul Light Spiritual Realizing Human Beings Buddhism Thousand Ten Core Dimensions Emptiness Ecstasy Spiritual Nature

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

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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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.”

Ifs World Inspirational Mind Beautiful Three Sun Four Inspirational Life Buddhism Incredibles Sunset

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.”

Ifs World Inspirational States Helping Awareness Materials Buddhism Depends Lows

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

“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

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

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

“The spirit longs for the world of light from which it came. That longing causes something to happen. It causes the being to grow into light.”

World Inspirational Light Happens Spirit Grows Causes Buddhism Longing

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Enter into the activities of the world, without getting overjoyed by success or totally put out by failure. Whether they love you or hate you, it doesn't much matter. What matters is stillness.”

World Inspirational Matter Hate Love You Buddhism Activity Stillness What Matters Hate You Overjoyed

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The world appears solid to most people. It is filled with their pain, their desires, their private ecstasies, their expectations. They are that world - nothing glows.”

People World Inspirational Pain Desire Buddhism Expectations Filled Ecstasy

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In this world people are at different levels of evolution. The more advanced soul has learned that fulfillment does not come from simply leading a physical life.”

People World Inspirational Doe Different Soul Levels This World Inspirational Life Buddhism Evolution Fulfillment Different Levels

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“You are sitting on this little planet, spaceship earth. The universe is very accessible to you. You don't need a spaceship to travel there. Most of the worlds are non-physical. And it's all God; it's all eternity”

World Inspirational Needs Littles Earth Universe Planets Buddhism Sitting Eternity Spaceships

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When your consciousness expands you are in a world, literally, of light. You live in a world of light where nothing is solid. You don't have to be enlightened to have this experience. You just have to start the inner journey.”

World Inspirational Light Consciousness Journey Buddhism Enlightened Inner Journey

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.”

World Inspirational Running Buddhism Simplicity This Life Complexity Running Away Void Starks

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.”

World Inspirational Existence Forever Buddhism Metaphor Changing The World Perpetual Rebirth Oblivion Never Change Fluid

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.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“People who meditate seek good moments forever. They know that there are other worlds beyond this world. They feel it. I experience those worlds when I meditate.”

People Knows World Feels Moments Forever Meditation This World Buddhism Other Worlds Good Moments

Author:Frederick Lenz

About the Author

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

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