Quotes from Frederick Lenz

Take out two pieces of paper. One piece of paper, list all the people you know who are adding to your life.

It is necessary to learn how to do a systems analysis of your life, to learn about the effects of places, people, jobs. There are millions of things that go into the study of meditation.

There is a world of deaf, dumb and blind people out there, who are shuffling through their lives, not knowing how wonderful life can be. They have their moments, but they are very unconscious.

The absorption in nirvana is all that matters. All the strategies of your life are only there to empower you for your final assault on the impenetrable cliffs of forever.

Life is an endless experience of God's. God doesn't even exist in nirvana, yet God exists in all other realms.

Life is light and consciousness. Beyond this world and other worlds, beyond time and space and dimension, beyond what we call duality, is God

Power is the thing that holds a band of perception together, and a band of perception is life for those who perceive in that band. If the band of perception were to go away, they would not exist.

What will happen in those encounters? Who knows? It wouldn't be much fun if you knew all of that; you'd be watching an old video called your life.

What can be the dharma at one point in your life can totally reverse itself, and suddenly you might be doing something the opposite or something very new, something you never considered.

Not to follow the dharma leads to disaster. Life will be unhappy.

On the pathway of knowledge we view life as in a dream. We feel that all of this world is a dream.

Consciousness is the screen. The images on the screen are your perceptions, the illusion that life is solid, that there is a material universe.

In deep meditation, all of the things that we call life, all of the combinations of experiences, fall away.

If you don't measure up to your expectations, realize that you should just be life without expectations.

If your life is based around your being comfortable, you're not very comfortable. You suffer quite a bit - becuase in the realm of the senses there is not only pleasure, but there is pain.

Eternity gives life to all and sustains all, transforms all on the wheel of dharma - until all attain perfection.

Having a tough time, things aren't working out no matter what you try and do? That's because you are spending your whole life just doing things for yourself. That's a very limited view of your being.

If your're not having a very good time with your life, its because you haven't done much for others. You may have done many things but you havent done much for those around you.

One day after many, many lifetimes, we get wise. We decide that the fun in life is to give.

If I give Susan a new Cuisinart then she'll be happy ... If she's thankful to me, my life will be better ... she will do something for me.

As you pass through this life, have you done all that you really wish to for others?

Eternity, I don't know what's right or wrong, good or bad. I may be doing what's right or I may be deceiving myself. So instead, what I'm going to do is give my life to you.

You are fighting against nothingness all the time by creating a series of shields that you call personality, life history, feelings, ideas, and ways of seeing.

Life is a series of dreams, a series of interlocking awarenesses. I don't necessarily believe in linear time. Everything happens all at once forever.