Quotes from Frederick Lenz

Several hours later, I heard my mother calling me to come into the house, and it never occurred to me that this was an experience that other children didn't have on a regular basis.

The first sexual experience is a significant imprinting of attention.

We see in meditation that our experiences are endless, that we are endless, eternal spirit, not as a thought or an idea you read in a book. You have the experience yourself, every day.

You need your reason to pass through the world and also to experience the nagual, because if you become all nagual, we'll lock you away in an institution.

We live inside our mind. That's all there is. Everything that you experience is not external, it's internal. All your experiences are predicated upon your awareness field.

There is a dharma for yourself, for someone else, for a family, for a nation, for a universe. There are collective and individual dharmas.

I was very dawn to people I loved, to my family, to my father, to my sister, to my brothers.

Laughing at fear is one of the best things you can do. When you are afraid, instead of just plunging into panic, laugh. The fear gets really uptight and leaves.

Step one in overcoming fears is to make a fear list. Make a list of all the things that you are afraid of. Start out with the small fears and conquer them.

In the world order, if the nagual dominates and not the tonal, then we'll live in times of fear and superstition.

People have power and it is very important to respect that. Everybody's had thousands of lifetimes, and who knows what anyone has learned in a lifetime ... respect not fear.

Fear can be used to get into your attention. Any way a person can get you to think of them, allows them to drain you.

Fear which has been embedded in your mind since you were a tot doesn't go away easily - it's conditioned in. And because we have fear, we fail to fulfill and realize our potential as human beings.

When you are not meditating, eliminate hate, doubt, fear, anxiety, negative thoughts and emotions that limit your consciousness, that bind you to a sense of self, of ego.

How to overcome fear? Be around people who are fearless.

The operative condition on this particular planet, the central mode which human beings follow, is fear. We are taught to fear.

Go out and do the things you are afraid to do gradually. Gain the power to do that through meditating. You will find yourself limitless reality that knows no fear.

People are kept in line in society because they fear punishment. The assumption that underlies this mentality is that a human being will follow their desires without mitigation.

Enlightenment is the food that eats you.

Forgiveness is the best revenge.

It is impossible to move on to new states of mind unless you seek the forgiveness of those you've offended.

To become pure is not difficult. Make the choices that will lead you to freedom and liberation - not enslavement to the wills, actions and desires of others.

Humility means freedom. It provides growth and takes you out of the cycle of change that you are currently in, which is stagnation.

To meditate with full effort, produces infinity, freedom.