Frederick Lenz Inspirational Quotes

• If you are able to stop feeling sorry for yourself, and to contribute to the betterment of this world and of those around us, you will experience a high that is beyond my ability to express.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Sorry, Buddhism

• There is no end and there is no beginning. There is only eternity. Eternity can be warm. eternity can be cold and ruthless.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Cold

• No lifetime is a loss if you've leaned something, because that learning stays with you. There is no such thing as a wasted life, if you have learned.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Loss

• A life that most people will never even know about can be yours in this study, but only if you approach it with equanimity, poise, grace, balance, and professionalism.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, People

• The ghetto is not where you live. The ghetto is inside your mind. And anyone who tells you that you can't get out of the ghettos of your own mind has no idea what they're talking about.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Ghetto, Buddhism

• You see, I'm a believer in the rhapsodic. I like things that are happy. For no particular reason, I just like them. Most people don't seem to be like that in this particular place, in this world. You can tell by what they focus on. Read a newspaper, watch a TV show, go to a movie, look at a life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Tv Shows

• The pathway to enlightenment leads to states of ecstasy, knowledge, and a pretty ironic sense of humor.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Ironic

• The trick in life is to find out where you belong. Once you find out where you belong, you will be happy there.

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  Inspirational, Buddhism, Life Is

• You are your state of mind. Your state of mind creates your view, or your window, on life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Views

• There are really only three important things to remember in life: To care, to share, and to be fair. This is not a new idea at all, and yet, observing how most people live their lives, you might think it was.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Thinking

• OK, you're alive. How aware are you, of anything? Can you see eternity? Do you live in the land of the perpetually happy?

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Land

• You have elected to follow this path you do not know. You have elected to follow the path because eternity has elected you. You will follow it is as long as eternity holds you to it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Long

• If you were just you, you would be happy. But of course, you don't know who or what you are. So how can you possibly be happy? That is why you have got to study Zen...or something.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Would Be

• Fame does not make you happy. It just makes you look in the mirror a lot, worrying about how you look today for your audience.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Mirrors

• You've got to make a person aware of how miserable they really are and show them how happy they can be. Otherwise, why should they seek this nebulous goal called self-discovery.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Discovery

• You need something. Not just to get through the day, but to get through the incarnation. You need to find that power, that perfect unity.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Perfect

• You can go through hundreds of lifetimes in one, and it all starts with daily meditation practice.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Meditation Practice

• If you learn to lead your life strategically and strongly, you can overcome the opposition. But running away, you never overcome anything. The pathway to enlightenment is for the warrior, the samurai.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Running, Buddhism

• Redefine you. Oh God, life is so beautiful. Don't let it pass you by. Don't miss it. Don't miss it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Buddhism

• Everyone feels some jealousy, some anger, and some hostility. Don't feel guilty. But to allow them to become dominant expressions of your way of life is off the wall.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Wall, Buddhism

• Words are deceptive. You think you understand something because it's explained to you and now you are under no obligation to do anything because you understand it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Thinking

• Most people put the cart before the horse, which is an interesting way to go through life. They approach everything directly. In Zen we approach everything backwards or inside out.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Horse, Buddhism

• The whole quality of your life depends on your state of mind. There are very high states of mind that very few people experience. They are also quite pragmatic and practical and they make you more efficient at living and working in the world.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, People

• Sometimes we can't do anything about our social condition, but we can do something about our condition of light.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Light

• People who are involved in self-discovery lead different types of lives. The lives they lead are not necessarily the lives of renunciation. Rather, it is a structuring of the elements in your life in a particular way.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Success, Buddhism

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