Quotes from Frederick Lenz

I deal with two types of students. Those who have a very deep-seated knowledge of love, which are few, or those in all their lives have ignored love.

As a dialectical teacher, I have had many lives where I have taught Zen and Tibetan Buddhism and mysticism. I teach in many different modalites. But the theme that unites them - is love.

The final entrance into Nirvikalpa Samadhi, into nirvana, God-realization, when you become the absolutely best friend of God, can only come when your love is completely pure.

Love makes you wise. Love unites. Pain divides. Hate divides even more. Hate separates and brings us down to a very physical plane. Love elevates us to a plane of spirit.

We break off obsession by laughing at ourselves, by learning to be funny, by just seeing the joy in life and by having a terrific love for this world.

Thousands and thousands of incarnations and nothing to show for it. You must choose whether to follow the path of love or the path of attachment.

Love can be used to drain people. Through eye contact people send a cord out to drain you long distance. Through sexual manipulation, anyone who can make you like them can drain you.

The only people who can really drain your power effectively are people you are very close to, you are open to, you love, or people you are afraid of, you fear.

Knowledge is the ability to love, the ability to feel, the ability to probe the depths and the heights of life. It is the experience of the experiencer, and at the same time, it is beyond that.

Balance is to choose happiness, to feel that the purpose of life is to love, not necessarily to be loved, to be happy, to be conscious, to be aware, to be fulfilled.

To love is to be balanced, to extend one's self beyond the sense of self.

Societies on this planet are based upon fear, not upon love. The strong dominate the weak.

When a civilization, a race, a people, a society, when they lack love, they are soon destroyed.

Happiness is not dependent upon outer circumstance. Happiness is falling in love with everything around you, everything inside of you.

Love is the only rule in self-discovery. If you've forgotten that rule, you've forgotten everything. It's not what you can get; it's what you can give.

There is no reason not to love. There is no reason not to be joyous. There is no reason not to celebrate because all of this means nothing, absolutely nothing. So why not be happy?

Love is not reasonable. If we could assign it to the reasonable world, it would not be useful.

When we love others we see our oneness with others.

I love so and so, how can I let go of them? You don't have to. You do whatever you chose. What you think, you become. Your thoughts are strongly affected by those you are emotionally open to.

Tragedy is the violation of love.

Love has very little to do with a person. It comes from us. You can love a surprisingly great number of people.

Relationships are a proving ground for love.

Practice love in your relationships. The key to this is avoiding expectation. It's expectation that makes most people miserable in love - the return on the investment.

Love is something that comes to us in life. Quietly, it overwhelms us. It is something that you cultivate. You make it happen.