“The way you learn is by sitting with the Master, as he moves into those states of attention, you feel that and follow him. He generates tremendous energy when he's doing anything. You are taught inwardly.” WayFeelsStatesWisdomMovingEnergyAttentionTaughtMastersBuddhismSitting Author:Frederick Lenz
“If you act impetuously, it will be uncertain, and you'll know it. It just won't feel right. It is better to wait.” IfsKnowsFeelsWisdomWaitingBuddhismUncertainFeels Right Author:Frederick Lenz
“Some people get tired of continual perception of the finite universe. They feel the perception of the universe over and over in variant forms is kind of an unhappy condition, because it doesn't last.” PeopleFeelsKindWisdomLastsFormSufferingUniverseConditionsBuddhismPerceptionTiredUnhappyFinite Author:Frederick Lenz
“Knowledge is the ability to love, the ability to feel, the ability to probe the depths and the heights of life. It is the experience of the experiencer, and at the same time, it is beyond that.” FeelsWisdomAbilityBuddhismDepthHeightAbility To Love Author:Frederick Lenz
“Balance is to choose happiness, to feel that the purpose of life is to love, not necessarily to be loved, to be happy, to be conscious, to be aware, to be fulfilled.” FeelsLife IsPurposeBuddhismBalanceConsciousPurpose Of LifeFulfilled Author:Frederick Lenz
“Have the right attitude in advanced practice. Feel that you are always a beginner in Zen. They refer to it as "beginners mind". I feel I am a beginner, always; because it's true.” FeelsMindAttitudePracticeBuddhismBalanceBeginners Author:Frederick Lenz
“Don't become a spiritual bigot. Don't feel that just because you meditate and you are striving for enlightenment that you are in any way superior to any other person. Be even. Be easy. You will last longer on the pathway to self-discovery.” WayFeelsPersonsSelfLastsSpiritualEasyBuddhismBalanceEnlightenmentDiscoveryStriveSelf DiscoverySuperiorsPathwaysBigots 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
“We've developed a very complex filing system for existence. We see things in terms of good or bad. We feel happiness, joy, pain, loss, guilt and remorse.” FeelsPainJoyHumanityTermLossExistenceBuddhismGuiltComplexesRemorseFiling 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
“When you're around the aura of humanity in those cities, you can't feel anything.” FeelsHumanityCitiesBuddhismAuras Author:Frederick Lenz
“You're looking for purity, something that just isn't all garbled, someplace where you can feel the earth again, where you can feel what the wind feels like, where you can see the stars at night, and actually, not just look at little dots in the sky, but feel an energy from them.” FeelsLooksLittlesEarthNightHumanityEnergyStarsSkyWindBuddhismPurityDots 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
“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
“Loneliness is a feeling that is created by our ego. The ego feels separate from the rest of creation. The answer to overcoming those feelings is ecstasy.” FeelsFeelingsHappinessAnswersLonelinessCreationBuddhismEgoOvercomingEcstasy Author:Frederick Lenz
“Just to exist, just to be, to take a breath, to feel that, whether its pleasure or pain, loss or gain, just your experience in life is unique to you. No one sees life like you do.” FeelsPainHappinessLife IsLossPleasureLike YouBuddhismUniqueGainsBreaths 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.” WorldFeelsDoeHappinessLove IsLove YouThis WorldBuddhismInsanityFeel BetterOne LoveLove SomeoneFunny ThingsAntidoteWhen You Love Someone Author:Frederick Lenz
“The worst thing you can do is to sit and brood and feel sorry for yourself. Nor should you feel wrong about doing this, since all of us do from time to time.” FeelsShouldHappinessCan DoWorstBuddhismSorryWorst ThingsFeel Sorry For You Author:Frederick Lenz
“Find things that make you feel still, that make you feel good.” FeelsStillsHappinessBuddhismFeel GoodMake You Feel Good Author:Frederick Lenz
“Focus on beauty all day long. Realize how incredibly beautiful your life is. How incredibly beautiful it is to feel, to look around, to be, to experience all this wonder.” FeelsLooksLongBeautifulHappinessLife IsRealizingWonderFocusBuddhism Author:Frederick Lenz
“Even sickness becomes an experience that we pass through in happiness because our happiness is not dependent upon how our body feels, but how our spirit feels.” FeelsBodyHappinessSpiritBuddhismSicknessDependent 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
“It is always easier to capture eternity in the falling snow or along the coast where the waves crash and in solitary and lonely places. It is the quiet places where it is easiest to feel eternity.” FeelsFallNatureBuddhismEasierQuietLonelyEternityWaveSnowCaptureSolitaryCrashCoastQuiet PlaceLonely Places Author:Frederick Lenz
“Take a couple of days by yourself and rent a nice cabin in some nice, happy place. Stay a day or two and meditate and take walks in areas that feel good to you. Find out who you are again. Remember.” FeelsTwoRememberNatureWalksNiceBuddhismCoupleAreasWho You AreFeel GoodCabinsHappy PlaceSome Nice Author:Frederick Lenz
“It is most important to have time alone. To be alone is not to be alone. It is only possible to truly feel immortality when we are by ourselves.” FeelsImportantNatureBuddhismImmortalityMe AloneAlone Time Author:Frederick Lenz
“When you love someone, you shouldn't feel that they should love in return. You have to give people freedom.” PeopleGivingFeelsShouldBuddhismReturnSexualityLove SomeoneWhen You Love Someone Author:Frederick Lenz
“A number of Guru's feel that there is something wrong or sick about being gay. I think it really doesn't matter what your sexual preference is; what matters is the quality of your love.” ThinkingFeelsMatterNumbersQualityBuddhismGaySickSexualityWhat MattersPreferenceGuruBeing Gay Author:Frederick Lenz
“You must have total and impeccable trust in eternity. Whether you like it or not, eternity's in charge, so you might as well trust. You will feel better.” InspirationalFeelsWellsMightBuddhismEternityFeel BetterYou Like ItImpeccable Author:Frederick Lenz
“In the beginning what is necessary is to feel that there is something worthwhile to be attained otherwise we won't do it.” InspirationalFeelsBuddhismWorthwhile Author:Frederick Lenz
“When we are very young children we know how to feel. It's innate. But as we lead a lifetime, we pick up so many thoughts, impressions, feelings, and ideas, that our sensitivity goes away.” KnowsInspirationalFeelsChildrenIdeasFeelingsYoungKnow HowBuddhismPicksLifetimeImpressionSensitivityInnateYoung Children Author:Frederick Lenz
“Everyone feels some jealousy, some anger, and some hostility. Don't feel guilty. But to allow them to become dominant expressions of your way of life is off the wall.” WayInspirationalFeelsLife IsExpressionWallBuddhismGuiltyDominantHostilityOff The Wall Author:Frederick Lenz
“As a sensitive person around other people, you feel their desires, you feel their angers, and you feel their frustrations. You begin to believe that these desires, angers, and frustrations are yours.” PeopleInspirationalFeelsBelievePersonsDesireBuddhismSensitiveFrustrationSensitive PersonAnger And Frustration Author:Frederick Lenz
“If you feel the purpose of life is struggle, Darwinian fitness, dog eat dog, then you will be eaten by a dog, or you will eat dog. You become what you focus on.” IfsInspirationalFeelsLife IsPurposeStruggleFocusDogBuddhismPurpose Of LifeLife Is A Struggle Author:Frederick Lenz
“This is the most exciting study there is. It is the only thing I know of in life that makes you feel consistently better, whether it's success or failure, whether they love you or hate you.” KnowsInspirationalFeelsHateStudyLove YouBuddhismExcitingConsistentlyHate YouSuccess Or Failure Author:Frederick Lenz
“Maybe you don't need to do this. Maybe this isn't your moment. But if you do feel the pull of the eternal, then you can't stay away from it.” IfsInspirationalNeedsFeelsMomentsBuddhismEternalYour Mom Author:Frederick Lenz
“All I have to teach you are feelings, the words don't matter much. But as you listen, feel the stillness of my mind, not my mind but of mind...infinite mind.” InspirationalFeelsMindMatterFeelingsTeachMastersBuddhismInfiniteStillnessOf My Mind Author:Frederick Lenz
“You need to feel good about your life. Winning is a great idea, but you can get stuck in it too. It's just another way of looking at life, an idea. You need to renew yourself and your spirit.” WayInspirationalNeedsFeelsIdeasSpiritWinningBuddhismStuckFeel GoodAnother WayGreat Idea Author:Frederick Lenz
“We sit here on the oasis of human consciousness and the verbal plane trying to talk about something that we just have to go and see and do and feel.” InspirationalFeelsTryingHumansConsciousnessBuddhismPlanesHuman ConsciousnessOasis 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
“When you meditate you feel joy, harmony, peace, stillness, ecstasy, laughter, certainty, courage, strength, awareness and immortality. In the beginning you will feel these things vaguely, a distant knocking at your castle door.” FeelsJoyMeditationDoorsAwarenessBuddhismLaughterHarmonyCertaintyImmortalityEcstasyStillnessCastlesKnockingCourage Strength Author:Frederick Lenz
“There is no loneliness when you meditate, you feel eternity. How could you ever be lonely? You just feel God's love for you and that sustains you. It's totally clear; it's part of every aspect of your being.” FeelsClearMeditationLonelinessBuddhismAspectLonelyEternityGod's LoveBeing Me 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.” PeopleKnowsWorldFeelsMomentsForeverMeditationThis WorldBuddhismOther WorldsGood Moments Author:Frederick Lenz
“You need energy and life force to see and feel what you need to do. Otherwise you are in a dark room and you can't tell what's going on. You need to practice meditation.” NeedsFeelsEnergyForceDarkRoomsPracticeMeditationBuddhismDark RoomEnergy And Life Author:Frederick Lenz
“There are those who feel that meditation is unrealistic or takes them out of the world, and if that was your experience with mediation, you weren't meditating.” IfsWorldFeelsMeditationBuddhismMeditatingMediation Author:Frederick Lenz
“Meditation gives you personal power. You will notice that people will treat you differently as you progress because they can feel that power. Use that power wisely. If you search your heart, I think you will.” PeopleIfsThinkingGivingFeelsHeartUseMeditationProgressBuddhismTreatsPersonal Power Author:Frederick Lenz
“Kundalini can be transmitted. A person who is very adept at the enlightenment process can transmit it. Whether you feel it or not, it's affecting you in a very positive way.” WayFeelsPersonsProcessBuddhismEnlightenmentTransmitVery PositiveAdept Author:Frederick Lenz
“The kundalini rises and the kundalini is hot, it's a hot energy. Sometimes you feel it cascading up your spine, and it's kind of searing or it's tingling, it almost feels sexual.” FeelsKindSometimesEnergyBuddhismHotSpine Author:Frederick Lenz
“In every situation, feel before acting, just for a second. Look for a feeling.” FeelsLooksFeelingsActingSituationBuddhismMindfulness Author:Frederick Lenz
“In Zen we do everything perfectly. We feel that our outer actions are a reflection of our inner state. We call it mindfulness.” FeelsStatesActionBuddhismMindfulnessReflection Author:Frederick Lenz