Quotes from Frederick Lenz

There is no end and there is no beginning. There is only eternity. Eternity can be warm. eternity can be cold and ruthless.

The possibilities for immortality are endless. Here you sit reading these words, a butterfly resting on a flower!

Life is perfect, it glows.

Life has no meaning. It doesn't need a meaning. A meaning is an arbitrary thought formulation that we affix to it because we are in the mood. Life is its own raison d'etre.

OK, you're alive. How aware are you, of anything? Can you see eternity? Do you live in the land of the perpetually happy?

The last game on earth is in progress. And when you lose, you win. And when you win, you can't lose.

Wisdom is something that seeks itself. The wiser you become the more you'd like to know.

You have elected to follow this path you do not know. You have elected to follow the path because eternity has elected you. You will follow it is as long as eternity holds you to it.

There's a different film being made in every mind. And of course, the star of the film is the mind, the personality, the self.

Pass the popcorn, please. Life is a film, theatre, a theatre of the soul. We play different roles on different stages. At death, we walk offstage. At birth, we walk onstage.

Things don't make you unhappy. People don't make you unhappy. You make yourself unhappy. Because you are in the cycle. You're stuck. You're stuck in time.

Well, what is God, then? God is that which watches. God is neither masculine nor feminine, although God can assume any form. God is that eternal reality that is in everything.

You should be drawing awareness from a deeper part of your being. Your deeper mind has everything already. It knows everything already. It has all the answers.

The final result of all life is your awareness. Your awareness is existence.

The key to happiness, in my opinion, is taking the time to find out what your spirit wants you to do, and doing it.

If you were just you, you would be happy. But of course, you don't know who or what you are. So how can you possibly be happy? That is why you have got to study Zen...or something.

We are alive for a certain period of time in any given lifetime. We are competing against time. It is a race to see if we can wake up before we go to sleep again. That is the challenge.

Life is an endless matrix of existence. And as you experience it in that pure form, that's what we call enlightenment.

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.

Fame does not make you happy. It just makes you look in the mirror a lot, worrying about how you look today for your audience.

Fulfillment of desire taken to extremes doesn't necessarily make us happy. It tends to make us rather cynical.

If you live for a very long while, you will have to watch your friends and loved ones die, your body age and lose its beauty and vigor, and your mental capacities fade.

Most successful people find out that the attainment of their goals doesn't necessarily bring them the happiness and joy they assumed; their happiness is short-lived.

Even the lucky ones, who do manage to become happy by attaining their goals, live each day in fear of losing whatever it is they may have gained.