Lenz Quotes

#1. Hitler learned his eugenics from the infamous "Baur-Fischer-Lenz" book that documented American and British eugenics.

A.E. Samaan

#2. Lenz tells Green how once he was at a Halloween party where a hydrocephalic woman wore a necklace made of dead gulls.

David Foster Wallace

#3. Themes that are "too large for adult fiction can only be dealt with adequately in a children's book" - Philip Pullman
(Hunt and Lenz, 2001, p. 122 as cited by Hunt, 2005, p. 204)

Philip Pullman

#4. Kaiser and Lenz are staring at each other like hunters who have walked into a thicket after a lion and found a unicorn.

Greg Iles

#5. We must bring light to as many people as possible. Who has time to indulge in self-pity or guilt? In advanced self-giving you have no time for this. You just push these emotions out.

Frederick Lenz

#6. We live in a world of wars and wars alarms, of famines, of oppression. While there are many wonderful people in this world, you'll notice one curious fact about them, they all suffer, they all die, and sometimes those who are the nicest seem to suffer the most.

Frederick Lenz

#7. Happiness is only gained when your mind is in extended states of attention, when your mind is merging with the infinite.

Frederick Lenz

#8. Chaos is everywhere and chaos is wonderful. That's all there really is. There is no today. There is no tomorrow. There is only eternity, perfection, consciousness, power, and light.

Frederick Lenz

#9. From infinite awareness, something comes forward, a sense of infinite awareness and finite awareness. That perception is the birth of a being.

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#10. 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.

Frederick Lenz

#11. You can be in a state of mind for a few seconds and forget that you were ever in any other state of mind. That's what we mean by illusion.

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#12. The only bad meditation is when you don't meditate.

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#13. This is not the case. There is nothing that is not the Self. The Self does not have to be realized.

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#14. Self-realization is a strange term. You don't actually realize your 'self'. If anything, you go away. The caterpillar enters the cocoon of meditation: A butterfly emerges - metamorphosis.

Frederick Lenz

#15. Don't think of us as separate beings. Imagine that we are one body and it's been split into millions. When we sit in the mediation hall - that is unity

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#16. Part of what we seek in Buddhism is the sense of quiet observation. We don't get so involved in a state of mind that we forget that it's just another transient state of mind, no matter how much ecstasy or agony is involved.

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#17. If you wait till you're very sure, then you'll find yourself doing it, and when you do there'll be an ease.

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#18. Existence is perpetual motion. Galileo wondered about it, Da Vinci.

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#19. If you try to pull too much power through too soon, you will injure yourself.

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#20. 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.

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#21. Only when there are no impressions of others clouding our mind, can we sit and practice the glorious practice of meditation.

Frederick Lenz

#22. At a very early age I was attracted to light, as most children are.

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#23. These truths may seem simple and self-apparent and the words easy to say, but the states of mind that you live in as you progress are beautiful beyond description.

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#24. From age to age an enlightened person comes along, one who has made friends with God. They're usually forgotten or scorned.

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#25. Step into the mystery of the mind. There are billions of minds, there are billions of selves. There are billions of worlds and dimensions.

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#26. Happiness is in the mind and the mind is the universe. Your mind is the universe, not just this physical universe that you perceive through your senses.

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#27. For an advanced preceiver, the play of life is to assemble and reassemble the self in alternate realities of which this is one.

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#28. The road for Arjuna is unexpected. Sri Krishna says you have to face that which you fear the most that which you're most attached to and eliminate it. In this case he has to fight a battle, and the battle is his attachments.

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#29. After meditation, it is a good idea to bow and offer your meditation to god, to that stillness and perfection that is existence. Feel that you are giving your meditation away.

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#30. Many enlightened persons are never very well known. Many are reclusive. They live in little villages in India or up in the high Himalayas in Tibet. Some have no students at all. Some have a few.

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#31. Enlightenment is already there inside us and all things. All we have to do is get something out of the way that is causing us not to see that.

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#32. Practitioners of tantra don't decide to break the rules. They are not particularly hung up on having sex or eating meat or drinking alcohol. They don't strive to do these things, nor do they strive to avoid them.

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#33. All questions about the Self, fall away in the white light of eternity, in nirvana, because then we have awakened from the dream.

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#34. The third stage is no thought. No thought is not the end of meditation. It is the beginning of higher meditation.

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#35. You are a being of light composed of cells of light joined together in a matrix.

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#36. If you have humility, you are willing to undertake anything to spread the dharma.

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#37. Sri Krishna says whatever role we have in life, we have to play it to the hilt. We have to take it all the way. We have to assume responsibility for our role. To run away from it causes misery.

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#38. When we meditate and we are able to stop thought, we get a sense of being beyond the body. Our consciousness expands and we see ourselves as beings of light.

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#39. We have to remind ourselves that we are not the transitory body, we are not the person who is having experiences, we are not affected by action or inaction.

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#40. Your journey is to see how deeply you can interface your mind with infinity. That's the journey of a monk - to see.

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#41. A person with power controls their life and their destiny. They have a mastery. Their moments are aware moments in this world, never wasted.

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#42. Happy people, enlightened people, successful people all share something in common. They have learned how to manage and increase their energy.

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#43. Human beings going to their jobs and living their lives are unconscious. They don't know what's going on. They don't know why you are born or why you die.

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#44. I have chosen to parody the writing styles of Carlos Castaneda, James Redfield, Richard Bach, Lynn Andrews, and several other best-selling new age authors.

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#45. When I play sports, when I dance, when I teach mysticism, I cannot explain, even to myself, how I do what I do.

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#46. Be fair. Don't present your version of the truth to others. Lose your ulterior motives! Be accurate and pure in your presentation of the way, and you will become the way.

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#47. For the first time, we live in a society that shows any sign of the possibility of women changing this condition.

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#48. Naturally, along the way, there are beings and forces that will challenge you. They want to try and get some of your power, take it away from you, all this nonsense, and of course, you just defeat them.

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#49. You're in a world of diversity. You see things through a glass darkly. There is a separation everywhere.

Frederick Lenz

#50. To deal with someone from other infinites is problematic at times, to deal with a true master of all the realms of the yogas. We call them someone with the seven seals of enlightenment, meaning that their gradated perception has past through all the realms.

Frederick Lenz

#51. The stars in the sky last for billions of years. That's nothing to the mind, nothing. It's an instant, a millisecond. The mind shines radiantly forever. But we don't see the shine because of the clutter.

Frederick Lenz

#52. If one were blind, one can simply focus on a feeling.

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#53. If you go too far, it'll blow your mind. I mean it's strong out there. If you go out too far beyond the bounds of attention, there are things in the universe, in the universes of mind, in the inner worlds, it's best sometimes not to deal with unless you're very, very far along.

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#54. People who have power, who think negatively of others and seek to injure them, are practicing a kind of voodoo, a lower sorcery.

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#55. The mind of the child is not formed. We are shown that this is life, this is the world.

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#56. Mindfulness is passive meditation. It is passive because your energy and your attention are divided between your actions and your practice, your meditation.

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#57. Everything is a formation or an aggregate of love.

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#58. Just as we have a physical body, so we have an etheric body and the etheric body is made up of energy, of light.

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#59. The world is futile when viewed through the persona of the body. The body is not simply the physical body but it's the body of knowledge of this world.

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#60. It is silly to drain others; for when you drain others, you also pick up their vibratory force.

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#61. You can get so caught up in learning all about reincarnation, you can get so caught up in learning about structures, fascinating though they may be, that you're not free; you're just studying a different textbook.

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#62. Some people say: "There is no God; because, if there was a God, God would stop all the suffering." Nonsense! God is oblivious to suffering. God is beyond suffering. That's what makes God, God, by definition.

Frederick Lenz

#63. The human life form vibrates at a certain rate, but all vibratory rates are not suitable for human life. So it's very necessary to meditate on higher octave energy, on the clear light, on joy, on happiness.

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#64. Love has its own independent form and formlessness. When someone loves you be gratiful for it. If they stop loving be grateful for that. If they love another, let them love!

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#65. There are billions of people on the earth and there are billions of earths, billions of universes. It is endless.

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

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#67. Learn to accept the transitory nature of existence of the body and the mind; see eternity in everything, this world, the other worlds, and nirvana.

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#68. Most people's Gods are self-reflective. God just has to be like you. You get concerned, so you assume God must get concerned. You get pissed off, so you assume God must get pissed off. You're attached to things that you create, so you assume that God would be.

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#69. Within the universe there is a pure light. It is a light that is beyond all darkness. It does not give way to anything. It is the light of existence, the dharmakaya.

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#70. There's a different film being made in every mind. And of course, the star of the film is the mind, the personality, the self.

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#71. You remember, you are drawn back to the pathway to enlightenment, to meditation, and when you begin to meditate your past life knowledge returns to you.

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#72. People try to get into your life. They try and keep you off-balance, keep you from making good decisions that will empower you - because if your attention field is sharp - you will see if anyone is in your life for ill reasons.

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#73. Love is something that we don't control. We have to be ourselves. You can be sexual, nonsexual, asexual, bisexual, or trisexual and it really doesn't have a lot to do with enlightenment.

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#74. Some people like destroying for the hell of it; they love destroying beauty; they try to feel those people and then crack the egg.

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#75. Many women devlop the second attention, attract a great deal of sexual attention, and for many years, appear to be very vibrant and strong.

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#76. See how it's a philosophy that's been handed to you by a bunch of men who were afraid. So instead, they overcompensate with hatred and violence and repression.

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#77. The teacher has nothing to do with people who use their mental powers to block the enlightenment of others. These people lack control. What can you teach someone who lacks control?

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#78. 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.

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#79. There's no right or wrong in the study of enlightenment. There's only experience.

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#80. We live in a competitive society. To pretend that it is not there is ridiculous. That is how the whole planet is set up. If you are not competitive, you do not succeed, you do not survive.

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#81. It is your causal body that is the real you. At the end of each incarnation, it carries the knowledge and karmic patterns of that lifetime, in addition to all of your other previous lifetimes, into your next lifetime.

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#82. You must have total and impeccable trust in eternity. Whether you like it or not, eternity's in charge, so you might as well trust. You will feel better.

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#83. The spirit of the West, of America, is different than the East. The cultural conditioning is very different. It seems to be harder for people to work in teams, more difficult for people here to live in harmony, in a monastery.

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#84. Whatever you focus on during meditation, you psychically travel to and touch. In meditation, when you think of somebody, you actually go into their aura. That is the issue. Keep your meditation pristine, unalloyed.

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#85. Life reorders you when you go into the clear light. Even the causal structure is liquefied. The clear light of reality, the dharmakaya, changes us into beings of light.

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#86. If you are having sex with someone who is not on the same frequency that you are on, it can be very problematic. The greatest karmic transfer occurs in having sex with someone.

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#87. We play in the jungle gym of sexuality until our spirit takes us out into a clear field where we can see the stars, the ten thousand radiances of enlightenment. One of those radiances is the dance of sexuality.

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#88. The person who practices advanced meditation is usually not married, some are. They usually don't have children, some do. But chances are they will not marry or have children because it demands to much time.

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#89. One never comes into embarrassment, if one is ready to balance. To ask oneself never in embarrassment, what have you in these decades made.

Siegfried Lenz

#90. Get your emotions under control and your life under control. Work really hard and don't make a big deal out of yourself. Have humility. Believe in yourself. Don't get a fanatical fixation on a teacher.

Frederick Lenz

#91. Computer science is fascinating. As you study computer science, you will find that you develop your mind. It is literally like doing Buddhist exercises all day long.

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#92. We throw you as many as you want, in this profession, and the more you want the more we'll give you, until you're so confused that you'll just beg for us to stop. Stop what? You're the one who started it - you're doing it anyway.

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#93. Krishna says, fight. He says, go out in the battlefield and kill those people whom it's your job to kill.

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#94. When you meditate you can stand back from your desire. When you silence the mind and there is stillness, only then can you tell if a desire is dharma.

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#95. What's important is to be supportive of all who practice. Anyone on any level, even if they don't call it self-discovery, who is seeking to awaken to their own potentials and possibilities, to the inner freedom, deserves your respect and support.

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#96. It is possible to contact higher beings who are not in the body. But the being you really want to contact is you.

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#97. Every day work on your humility through your meditation, giving more of yourself, giving those things you don't want to give.

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#98. Samadhi is perfect absorption to the point where there is no sense of being absorbed, not the consciousness of knowing that you are having an experience.

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#99. The people to become enlightened in Atlantis lit the "flame of enlightenment" on earth for the first time. The members of the various mystery schools have kept the flame alive by passing on the secret techniques for attaining enlightenment from the time of Atlantis to our present day.

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#100. You don't need anybody to tell you what is right or wrong. What you need, perhaps, is someone to show you how to come to those understandings.

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