Frederick Lenz Quotes About Joy

• You are complete. Completion has taken place in you eons ago. Accept yourself. Enjoy yourself. This time will never be again, so fulfill the moment with your own self-joy.

  Frederick Lenz

  Happiness, Taken, Buddhism

• The attainment of enlightenment makes you happy forever. It frees you from the mental and emotional pains that human beings experience every day. You live in a condition of ecstasy, brightness and joy all of the time.

  Frederick Lenz

  Pain, Buddhism, Emotional

  Frederick Lenz (1995). “Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure”, St Martins Press

• Sensations of peace, joy, and love will enter into you. They will be very subtle at first. Then they will grow stronger.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Chakra Meditation, Joy

• Knowledge of the Enlightenment Cycle, of the ways that inner dimensions and nirvana work, lifts you far above the transient sorrows, pains, pleasures and joys that the unenlightened masses experience.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Pain, Joy

  Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

• We break off obsession by laughing at ourselves, by learning to be funny, by just seeing the joy in life and by having a terrific love for this world.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Break Off, Laughing

• All the joys in all the worlds of all beings who have ever been or will ever be, will never equal the perfection of one moment of absorption into the stillness of nirvana.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Perfection, Joy

• I think that pain gives us appreciation of joy - it's a package deal. And I definitely think that the joys of life far outweigh the pain.

  Frederick Lenz

  Appreciation, Pain, Buddhism

• Samadhi is an experience of such depth, such joy, such indifference and such love, that nothing else is really like it or worthwhile in comparison, yet it gives shape, color and meaning to everything.

  Frederick Lenz

  Color, Giving, Joy

• Our failure to see and access the pure joy and radiance of life is owning to a lack of awareness. In any situation there is beauty. Even at the moment of one's death there is beauty.

  Frederick Lenz

  Philosophy, Joy, Radiance

• The spectrum that most people exist in this world is very mundane and very unhappy. Certainly human beings are capable of experiencing great joy and happiness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, People

• Most successful people find out that the attainment of their goals doesn't necessarily bring them the happiness and joy they assumed; their happiness is short-lived.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Successful

• There is a certain degree of pain to be experienced in the search for self-knowledge, as there is a certain amount of joy. You just do it because you find yourself doing it. There just doesn't seem to be much else worthwhile.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Pain, Buddhism

• When you meditate you feel joy, harmony, peace, stillness, ecstasy, laughter, certainty, courage, strength, awareness and immortality. In the beginning you will feel these things vaguely, a distant knocking at your castle door.

  Frederick Lenz

  Laughter, Buddhism, Doors

• Oh God, God, please come to me, please illumine me, please act in me and through me. I don't know what's right and what's wrong. I can't tell anymore. I could be doing what I feel is right and perhaps I'm deceiving myself. Perhaps it's all my ego and my vanity. Please show me what's right or don't even show me. Please just do it, whether it brings me happiness or unhappiness, riches or poverty, sorrow or joy. Please act in and through me. I love only you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Vanity, Joy

• We're not aware of the joy of our own immortality. When we give to someone else it opens a doorway and gives us the vision to see those we give to are God. As we see this in others, suddenly we see it within ourselves.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Yoga, Giving

• There is suffering and there is joy. Your life is very short, and then you're back again for another and another, forever, unless you step off the wheel.

  Frederick Lenz

  Joy, Forever, Suffering

• Humility accepts the very nature of a human being is complete, unadulterated, ecstatic joy.

  Frederick Lenz

  Humility, Buddhism, Joy

• Entities have died, but what they seek is life again. They miss it. They want to experience food again, basic things. They are low on the evolutionary scale. They want to experience the joy of destroying something.

  Frederick Lenz

  Joy, Missing, Want

• Anything but enlightenment is pure pain; it is the lack of enlightenment. There are joys, of course, and they should be enjoyed. There are sorrows, and they should be passed over briefly.

  Frederick Lenz

  Pain, Joy, Sorrow

• Being on the path means we again meditate with joy. We deal with the suffering of life and the pain of existence without perfect enlightenment with a smile.

  Frederick Lenz

  Pain, Mean, Perfect

• There is a lot of opposition. You will experience it. But the joys that come from the study, more than compensate for the opposition, in my opinion. It's a personal choice.

  Frederick Lenz

  Choices, Joy, Opinion

• The experiences you'll have, the people you'll love, the jobs, the joys, the sorrows, the way you'll die. It is all predestined, unless you will a change.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Jobs, People

• Who is that is dreaming all of this? Ecstasy, pure ecstasy, joy beyond understanding, bliss beyond the dry dullness of the mind's philosophical ranging, light beyond any light in this world - The substance and the essence of all existence is this light, the transcendental light.

  Frederick Lenz

  Dream, Philosophical, Light

• 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.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Light, Joy

• Human beings have illusions. The enlightened don't have illusions. They see things as they are, and in that seeing, they see ecstasy and joy. They see the play of life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Play, Joy

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