Quotes from Frederick Lenz

Only the ego can fear, experience hate, lust and jealousy. Humility experiences none of these things - it merges into the transcendental awareness of perfection.

As we grow up, we are exposed to hate and greed and anger and jealousy and peanut brittle and all kinds of things, our subtly body erodes.

The short way to happiness is through kindness and sensitivity.

The secret to enlightenment is kindness and selfless giving. Without that, it's just words, isn't it?

The only group of Atlanteans that was truly successful in transplanting their knowledge to a new location was the group that landed in what is now Egypt.

The Jews didn't like him because he threatened their religion. He was saying things that didn't go with the order.

Most people we observe who practice self-discovery just get caught up in a new description, a new "ism", a new religion, a new god. But nothing changes.

The avoidance of that which causes you pain does not produce enlightenment. It produces avoidance. Religion is the avoidance of pain and suffering.

Zen is not a religion. There is no room for a cult. There is no dependence on a teacher. There is only learning how to use your own mind and making it strong.

Religion is either something we scorn because we are too rational or it's the realm of the fanatic who insists that their God and their religion is the only way and everyone else is dammed.

It's just not working. One nation trying to destroy another, one race trying to destroy another, one religion trying to destroy another - It's the same old story over and over again.

Have a healthy respect and love for yourself, but don't be taken out by your ego.

Most people are terribly afraid of their own sexuality, and one has to respect another person's sadhana, another person's path.

A better name for nirvana might be endless love. Love not even in the sense that we see it if we're watching the romantic movie, but love in a sense of no absence.

Enlightenment has nothing to do with physical knowledge. It is the experience of existence. Existence is infinite. There are countless universes and creations taking place simultaneously.

The pathway to enlightenment leads to states of ecstasy, knowledge, and a pretty ironic sense of humor.

In the Upanishads they talk about the path of the sun and the path of the moon. The path of the moon is rebirth. The path of the sun leads to self-knowledge, from which there is no return.

The etiquette is higher consciousness, sensitivity, gentleness, gracefulness, intensity, power, and knowledge.

When we experience fear, it cuts us off from our power. It cuts us off from knowledge and experience. It is a guillotine that falls and separates.

None of this is real. All of this is an illusion and your acceptance of that fact is the beginning of the pathway to self-knowledge.

These are the mysterious ways of knowledge, power and enlightenment. I can only allude to them in words. I cannot possibly explain what this process is like.

This is only a small part of the totality. From this island earth we see only a fragment of creation and its knowledge.

When we talk about self-realization, we're talking from the point of view of limitation of the mind. Real knowledge is to see that you are that - you are eternity.

If you meditate and continue to have fun with yoga and Buddhism, you will amass knowledge and will move to a higher incarnation. In your next lifetime you will be much wiser, much happier.