Quotes from Frederick Lenz

It's up to you to avail yourself to knowledge. Knowledge doesn't need you. The idea of a compassionate God was formulated, obviously, by someone who didn't want to do any work.

Have a wonderful sense of humor, particularly about yourself and your own situation. Yet don't simply laugh. Work to change and improve things even though, at times, it seems impossible.

You can love infinity, eternity, Scotty dogs, sports, work, play, the feelings of being alive, the earth, the sky, the fire, the wind ... there's a lot you can love.

Meidtation and selfless giving must always go together. They work together to create immortality.

If you think of spiritual practice as unpleasant work - it is not spiritual practice as I know it.

In order not to lose your resolve and purpose, you need to unite with others of like mind and work with an advanced Teacher who is in touch with, and can transfer, knowledge and power.

It is possible to renounce everything and attain enlightenment. But most people don't want to renounce; they wish to run away from responsibility and hard work.

The advanced student of meditation takes an active part in supporting the work of their teacher. They happily work more hours or do whatever is necessary to help out more.

My particular focus at the moment is on the development of genetic algorithms and neural networks that work together to create computer architectural systems.

Whenever I work with anyone, it is an opportunity for them to become more professional and do something for someone else.

I personally, only work with people in my business who show excellence. I have a business, the business of enlightenment.

I only work with professionals. I don't mean at seminars, but in my business.

I am a teacher because teaching allows me to observe the universe at work, that moment when wakefulness suddenly occurs.

Many of the people I work with I've worked with in other lifetimes. I moved to California because I knew that many of my students from past lives were in California.

The next best thing is to work with those who are not quite there yet to bring them up to that level.

I select people to work more closely when they are prepared to and I see that. They don't have to tell me. I know. I will give them a task of some type, and that task becomes the koan between us.

Some people go into tantra with the idea, sort of an intellectual approach, that now they can just do everything and stay high. That doesn't work at all.

Tantra is not for a hedonist at all. It won't work. If you're heavily attracted to sensual experiences, tantra will definitely not be of any use to you.

Tantra is for the desperate. Unless you've really experienced pain and suffering, tantra won't work. Unless you've really experienced exultation and ecstasy, tantra won't work.

To perfect your nature doesn't mean to have some idea of what a perfect person is and to simply be that. That doesn't work.

Just because it doesn't work out for you, doesn't mean that it's not wonderful for someone else.

The person in the business suit who works on Wall Street, who does their work perfectly, is probably evolving a lot faster, if they also meditate.

In the West people spend most of their time and energy working. The problem is you are so tired from work that you don't have much energy to meditate - unless you use work in a tantric way.

Self-control is completely necessary for increasing and raising your attention level. One of the places you practice that is at work.