Quotes from Frederick Lenz

Nirvana is a word that means enlightenment, being beyond the illusion of birth and death, the illusion of pain, the illusion of love, the illusion of time and life.

The message of love is self-acceptance in the smaller sense and self-acceptance in the large sense - the Self as eternity.

There are parts of us that are miserable, that hate, that love, that are cruel, are kind, are reasonable, are unreasonable. You know, you live inside your own mind. Who are you kidding?

Dogs have fleas; people have each other. We are born to die. Life is a continuing tragic comedy. Everything and everyone we love suffers. Anybody who doesn't see that has not grown up and known life.

Love is the easiest and most effective way to begin our search for self-realization.

The real test on the path of love is are you willing to give up everything for your love?

Love leads us to ourselves - this is the mystery of love.

As you pass through bhakti yoga, as you pass through love, you're elated. You're fulfilled and you're joyous.

The path of love is its own reward. Your love itself, that is what completes you.

While we all have a great capacity to love, very few of us will love the proper way.

On the path of love we feel that if we love today, it's only because God is loving through us, because there is a special grace present with which we can love.

There is nothing and no one else but your dear friend, eternity, who has always loved you, who will always love you.

One who practices the yoga of love is like child. When the child has a problem, it cries. When it cries, someone comes and helps the child.

On the path of love we don't feel we necessarily have control. In the yoga of love we feel it's only God who does everything. We can't breathe one breath without God.

Purity is developed through caring. You need to care about light and the matters of light, truth, religion and spirituality.

Ego synthesized is selfhood, the sense of self-importance, that you really matter ... nothing could be further from the truth.

We have the possibility of being far removed from what we are, of beginning to taste it and feel it. That is direct knowledge. That is truth. Anything else is mere words.

I saw more truth and sensitivity in art than I did in many of the people in this world.

You will gain energy by meditating deeply, by speaking the truth, by learning to be still and by avoiding the crowd, most of the time, not all of the time.

I am a Teacher. I am the keeper of mysteries. You seek knowledge and power, Truth, Light, and happiness. I am happy to aid you in your search.

A Buddhist monk has a responsibility first and foremost to themselves, and that's to find the truth each day in every part of their life.

To look for truth in all the wrong and all the right places is the only excuse for living.

Within silence all things are contained. What appears to our eyes to be life is but a thin curtain, a gauze penumbra, which stultifies our vision, which prevents us from seeing the truth.

One nationality supresses another. One religion claimsto be the exclusive way to truth or god.