Quotes from Frederick Lenz

As you meditate, you'll develop a sense of humor so that you can laugh at yourself, which you need to do in this world.

Humor is the balance of the tonal. Within the tonal you've got reason and humor. The two balance each other so that the tonal can accept and understand the journeys into the nagual.

Humor is one of the primary tools for liberation.

You must be accommodating with your teacher. You must have a sense of humor about your teacher and the impossible things they ask you to do.

Humor enables us to deal with and overcome many of the most painful and difficult situations in our lives.

The idea of self is dependent upon attraction, aversion and memory. Memory is simply a serial account of attractions and aversions that don't exist now except in imagination.

The ghetto is not where you live. The ghetto is inside your mind. And anyone who tells you that you can't get out of the ghettos of your own mind has no idea what they're talking about.

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.

Opinions are secondary when dealing with reality. They're subjective reflections.

There are no bad people; there are only bad states of mind.

You have probably had past lives where you were in better stages of mind than you are in now.

We are luminous beings. Beneath our transient physical bodies we are made of intelligent light.

The trap of the self is the trap that causes unhappiness. We define ourselves too much; whereas the infinite, the pure radiant spirit, is not so definable.

You are caught in an empty house, in a box, in a place that is not happy. You are trapped inside you and wherever you go, there you are.

You might have a warrior spirit in there somewhere, and it's just waiting for the opportunity to come out. If you do, you might be a candidate for the pathway to enlightenment.

All of the energy of existence is going to flow through you. You will be in thousands of planes of consciousness at once or beyond in nirvana or having a sandwich with a friend.

In this lifetime you can lose everything. Everything passes here. But you don't lose any spiritual knowledge that you have gained in this or any other lifetime. It is inside you.

Trivial Pursuit means that you've got nothing going on in your life. Trivial Pursuit is more than a board game. It is the way most people live. Their lives are trivial pursuits.

Why waste your time being around people who drag you down? You don't live forever, at least in this life.

The magic of life, of course, is not something that can be explained. Structures can only take us to the point where they begin or end. Beyond structures is the white light.

Life hurts at times. It hurts to have a body at times, hurts to be born, hurts to live, hurts to die, but it can be ecstasy beyond comprehension. You can know that ecstasy. It is inside of you.

They had the same fears that you have, the same aggressive tendencies and the same attachments, but they were freed in time because they believed.

I would encourage you to follow the pathway to enlightenment, to learn to meditate, to practice mindfulness, and not to really care what anybody thinks about you, including yourself.

The essence of all reincarnation is to have the best lifetime now that you've ever had, no matter what's going on.