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“There is the physical world that we live in, which we perceive through the senses, but there are other worlds. Right in front of you there are other worlds, right now. Those worlds are as real, if you will, as the physical world.”

Ifs World Real Fronts Buddhism Right Now Senses Perceive Other Worlds

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Life is perception. We perceive through different parts of the body of the universe.”

Different Body Life Is Universe Awareness Buddhism Perception Perceive Parts Of The Body

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We are taught not to perceive but to avoid direct perceptions of reality and to substitute instead this kind of one-dimensional view of life.”

Kind Reality Views Awareness Taught Buddhism Perception Direct Perceive Substitutes Perception Reality

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Perception is the ability to be conscious of self and that which is other than self. Without thinking about it, a distinction is made between who we are and what we perceive.”

Thinking Made Self Ability Awareness Buddhism Perception Conscious Perceive Who We Are Distinction

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If we view the universe as other than what we are, we are everything we don't perceive.”

Ifs Universe Views Awareness Buddhism Perceive

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We perceive the solidification as the world around us, which appears to be relatively solid. But that solidification is just really a reflection of the solidification of one's sense of self.”

World Self Awareness Buddhism Reflection Self Awareness Perceive Sense Of Self

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The universe is a giant perceptual matrix. It perceives itself through its substance”

Universe Awareness Buddhism Substance Perceive Giants

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The universe is made up of an endless ocean of life itself. It is an endless ocean of itself. And for a time it binds itself together in particularized forms. Those forms have perception and they perceive themselves as being separate.”

Made Together Form Universe Awareness Buddhism Ocean Perception Endless Perceive

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Perception is a wave. You change as your perception of something changes because you define yourself as a reflection of whatever you happen to perceive.”

Happens Awareness Buddhism Perception Reflection Wave Perceive Things Change Define Yourself

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Your self is the universe, and you perceive the universe through a state of mind.”

Mind Self States Universe Awareness Buddhism Perceive State Of Mind

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Perception is, in essence, who we are. We are what we perceive. What we perceive defines who we are.”

Awareness Buddhism Perception Essence Perceive Who We Are

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Through the experience of memory, you recall what you have done, and you therefore attach yourself to it and perceive yourself through prior experience.”

Done Memories Awareness Buddhism Perceive Recalls

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You perceive yourself as being solid and physical, limited to a body. You are made up of light, endless mind. The way you see life is a limited state of mind.”

Way Mind Made States Body Light Life Is Awareness Buddhism Endless Perceive State Of Mind

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It is possible to modify your awareness to perceive what plants perceive, birds, beings in the astral, the causal.”

Awareness Buddhism Bird Plant Perceive

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Dimensionality only exists because the mind can perceive life that way, but that's only one simple method that the mind has for perceiving itself, for perceiving life.”

Way Mind Simple Awareness Buddhism Method Perceive

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Life is invisible. The illusion is that what we perceive is in some way not a reflection of self. Life reflects the field of attention that we're in.”

Way Self Life Is Attention Awareness Fields Buddhism Illusion Reflection Invisible Perceive

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The universe is ecstasy. We have many other ways of perceiving infinity. And when you perceive life through these other modes, that's when you see that the universe is ecstasy, That's when you experience its ecstasy.”

Way Universe Awareness Buddhism Perceive Ecstasy Infinity

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In the western philosophy you can't perceive infinities at every moment. It's not there to do.”

Philosophy Moments Humanity Buddhism Western Perceive Infinity Western Philosophy

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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

“Happiness is in the mind and the mind is the universe. Your mind is the universe, not just this physical universe that you perceive through your senses.”

Mind Happiness Universe Buddhism Senses Perceive

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The Frisbee is a round disk. That's the somethingness. But it has another side; it has a nothingness which you cannot perceive with your physical mind or your senses.”

Mind Sides Health Buddhism Rounds Senses Perceive Nothingness Athletics Disk Frisbee

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Life is beautiful all of the time. Just to be alive and perceive that beauty of life all around you and within you is the best that there is.”

Inspirational Beautiful Life Is Alive Buddhism Perceive Within You Beauty Of Life Life Is Beautiful

Author:Frederick Lenz

“For most persons, the mystical kundalini energy is easier to initially perceive, unless you're extremely sensitive. It's more of a rush, a flash. There's an electric quality to it, a burning heat.”

Persons Energy Quality Buddhism Easier Burning Perceive Sensitive Heat Electric Flash Mystical

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The energy strands and bands of our being are linked in a certain way and makes us what we are. It causes us to perceive a certain level of the dream of life. But you can reorder those. That's magic, you see.”

Way Dream Certain Energy Causes Levels Magic Buddhism Band Perceive Linked Strands

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There's no way we can possibly understand anything. But we can see things, we can perceive things, and we can wonder. We can just be in a world of awe and wonder. That's the best we can do.”

World Way Science Can Do Wonder Buddhism Perceive Awe Awe And Wonder

Author:Frederick Lenz

“C. S. Lewis, Plato, Aristotle and many more names that I could add, including Einstein's, were individuals who were able to see the innate order in life, which others perceive as chaos.”

Able Science Order Names Individual Buddhism Add Chaos Including Perceive Plato Innate

Author:Frederick Lenz