Frederick Lenz Quotes About Humanity

• Samadhi is not going to take away your humanity. It will give it to you. You will become more cosmopolitan, more conscious, and more infinite.

  Frederick Lenz

  Giving, Humanity, Infinite

• They don't understand the multi-life sequences. Anything they can't see in a laboratory, they think is nonsense.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Thinking, Humanity

• The best thing that you can do to deal with these high speed times is to slow down, inwardly, to take a little more time for meditation, a little more time to enjoy your morning cup of coffee or tea, and to look around at the people in your life with a little more love.

  Frederick Lenz

  Morning, Coffee, Buddhism

• It is a real service to humanity and the world to be a good programmer, particularly if you design great products. You make is easier for everybody, everybody has less headaches.

  Frederick Lenz

  Real, Science, Design

• The reason why there's such a rigid repression of the mentally ill is the psyche of humanity senses something. It senses that it doesn't want to deal with the unknown.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Humanity, Want

• The way of humanity is to turn everything into a marketable product. But when we turn something into a marketable product it loses something.

  Frederick Lenz

  Humanity, Way, Christianity

• Shakespeare said: "There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow." Everything happens perfectly.

  Frederick Lenz

  Fall, Buddhism, Humanity

• Religion is either something we scorn because we are too rational or it's the realm of the fanatic who insists that their God and their religion is the only way and everyone else is dammed.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Humanity, Way

• This is a world that defines everything backwards, a world in which good is called bad, brightness is called darkness, up is called down, enlightenment is called abnormal behavior and abnormal behavior is applauded as reason.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Darkness, Humanity

• The population of the planet is increasing at an alarming rate, and yet each day human beings manage to destroy ten species.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Humanity, Population

• Its funny how human beings tend to think that they're the masters of the earth never realizing that the earth, for a time, simply tolerates its tenants and then, when the mood strikes, it shifts its continents around.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Thinking, Humanity

• 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.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Humanity, Mind

• This is a dark age. That's not news. It's a dark time when we have to be particularly aware of danger.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Dark, Humanity

• Spiritual people are often persecuted because of their beliefs. Christians were fed to the lions. Jews were slaughtered in concentration camps. Various forms of persecution still exist today throughout the world.

  Frederick Lenz

  Christian, Spiritual, Buddhism

• The teaching that we receive is not necessarily very accurate. The value systems that our cultures have developed are not every open. They are very restrictive. We live in an age that is not enlightened.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teaching, Buddhism, Humanity

• The condition of humankind is not good, in the sense that the illusory prisons we create for ourselves through our desires and our frustrations are unhappy.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Frustration, Humanity

• When we see a hero, on the one hand, we applaud them; on the other hand, there is something in a lot of people that wants to tear the hero down.

  Frederick Lenz

  Hero, Buddhism, Hands

• A walk in the woods can reveal many things, and it is a good time to practice transcendentalism. Look at a tree and realize it's not just a tree, its roots may go into the ground but it may also go into other worlds, other eternities.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Practice, Other Worlds

• We feel crowded by other people; we feel crowded by social rules; we feel crowded by ourselves, mainly.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, People, Humanity

• The world is entering another dark age. After 1985, the Maya will be so thick that it will be difficult to advance spiritually without a strong foundation.

  Frederick Lenz

  Strong, Buddhism, Dark

• Humankind has no idea what existence is, at this stage. They're all dreaming, they're all asleep... Once in a great while a fully awakened one is here, observes everybody is sleeping and leaves, quietly.

  Frederick Lenz

  Dream, Sleep, Buddhism

• We live in a world where no one believes. Enlightenment and knowledge are laughed at. Those who seek and teach the mysteries are scorned and often persecuted. Welcome to the planet earth: environment hostile.

  Frederick Lenz

  Believe, Buddhism, Humanity

• In the West people are basically oblivious to power, solstices, enlightenment and everything that matters.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, People, Humanity

• Who are these human beings anyway? They walk around, strut, fret, as if they owned the planet, or the goddamned universe. I mean, who do they really think they are?

  Frederick Lenz

  Mean, Buddhism, Thinking

• A society that destroys the environment that supports it, I would not consider to be intelligent life. It's like the cancer that ultimately kills itself by destroying the host it feeds on.

  Frederick Lenz

  Cancer, Buddhism, Intelligent

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