Quotes from Frederick Lenz

They'll kill you in a minute rather than deal with truth. It's more convenient because then they can forget about it and rationalize your death.

Consistency is nice, I think, personally. I like to be consistently happy. I like to be consistently more aware and more conscious of the truth.

Don't be discouraged. At times the path to truth is circuitous. The point is not to succeed, only to smile eternally.

The most noble of all pursuits is to be enlightened, to know truth, to have knowledge and yet be beyond even truth and knowledge, to be God.

Most people don't care much about enlightenment and the truth. They'd rather watch the Home Shopping Network, and maybe that's another kind of truth.

Knowledge comes from personal experience of truth and awareness, not from conversation.

Everything we see is an illusion. Even our perceptions of truth are illusory, illusory in the sense they're not complete.

None of this has ever been or will ever be; all is an appearance, all is an illusion. Illusions are truth. All illusions are real. We say illusion, meaning that they're shadows.

We have ideas of God and nirvana or truth or enlightenment. These ideas will go away in nirvana because the suffusion is so complete and intense that nothing can be remembered.

Is it important to have an enlightened teacher? No. Yes. If you are an absolute beginner, it really doesn't matter that much, to tell you the truth.

The ultimate horror movie for a really un-illuminated being is an enlightened person. They are scared of others seeing what they are all about and what they really do. They are scared of truth.

It is only in Samadhi that you'll begin to get an inkling of who you are; and finally, it is only in nirvana that this perfect truth will become clear.

As we love truly and deeply, we see the white light of truth in them. Seeing this reminds us that the same light exists within us too - As the Tibetans say: "Recognition is liberation."

Don't try to hold people to you, don't try to push them away. Let life do everything for you. This is the proper attitude on the path of love.

Those who love and who have a sense of purity live in a very luminous band of awareness.

The ego is not harmonious with happiness and spiritual development. In the process of spiritual transformation we refine it. In the fire of love we melt the ego down.

Everything is the will of God - we are only instruments of her will and we learn to just love and accept.

If there's no one in your life to love right now, love yourself. A large part of the path of love is learning to love yourself.

Then there are most of my students who don't know a whole lot about love. You don't know what fun love is. I will remain inaccessible to you until you learn how to love.

Love is the bridge that joins all the worlds together. Love permits us to see who and what we are. The only thing that will truly inspire us to find the dharma is love.

The problem with love is attachment; love makes you dependent. Unattached love - you love for the hell of it.

You cannot compel someone to love. Love is like the wind. It comes when it does, it stops when it does, it changes direction when it does. Who are you and I to criticize the wind?

Love more deeply and without the sense of what you love being your personal possession.

When you follow the path of love you should feel that each one is perfect in their own right. While you can love others, never, ever, ever judge them.