Quotes from Frederick Lenz

If you're studying Buddhism you never really have enough time because you're going to die.

I had a father who was strong and kind and loving beyond ... at the same time who was extremely puritanical, who had been raised in a religion with extensive morality.

I found that the breakthroughs for me, as I went through school, came through sexuality, explorations of consciousness, reading, loving, friends, time in nature, and through psychedelic experiences.

I've been very fortunate because many of the teachers I had were exceptional. But I didn't realize that at the time that all teachers were not alike.

At the same time, I went through college, received a Ph.D. and started to teach. I wrote books.

I found the experiences that I had with sexuality were wonderful, they were very uplifting - we had a good time - and they didn't seem to affect the level of my mediation.

I don't have the luxury of time to be unhappy. I have too much to do. I have too much do accomplish. Who has the time to be unhappy?

I don't believe in anything, yet I believe emphatically in almost everything. It all depends on what seems appropriate at the time.

I saw "Forrest Gump" several times. I personally thought it was Tom Hanks' greatest role and I think it was one of the most eloquent love stories of our time.

I just felt that it was my responsibility, since so many people had taken the time to help me along, to do the same for others.

There is a time you can't turn it back. When a person is very destructive, when they hate you tremendously, you have to disassociate with them.

It is important to have intensive blocks of time together. During our nights together there is a tremendous interchange of knowledge, power and awareness.

When time stops, matter stops.

Nirvikalpa samadhi is another matter. I don't feel that's really up to us. That happens at a certain time when our being has gone through countless changes and refinements.

Once in a while, you will see someone really drippy. The person has to stare at the teacher all the time with that devoted and disgusting and sick look. It's boring, misplaced devotionalism.

You need to have the humility to accept your limitations as long as they're there, and have the humility to accept their end when that time comes.

The world glows all the time. All of the things that you have come to understand aren't. The greatest thinkers in the world see very little compared to the enlightened.

There is only eternity. That's our real body. The stars are our blanket. Time doesn't even exist, except in our own minds.

There is no time. There is no space. There is no condition. There is only awareness, awareness of these ideas.

Time is a convenient filing system human beings have devised to segregate their experiences.

Time is not a movement in space. Space is a movement in time.

I would suggest to you that at this moment you are the only self that you have ever had; you've never had a childhood; there wasn't a five-minute-ago time.

Our past affects us, our present affects us, and even our future can affect us. We live in the relative world of time and space.

Some of the highest vibratory places one can visit have become very expensive. They are the domains of the rich. The rich figured out a long time ago that certain neighborhoods have more power.