Frederick Lenz Quotes - Page 166

• We call someone a saint in a world in which everyone is abnormal. The normal person becomes extraordinary. But there's nothing extraordinary about being a saint, that's just someone who's somewhat online with life.

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  Saint, Abnormal, World

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• Christianity is a marketable product. It has very little to do with Jesus Christ. I'm sure it has nothing to do with Jesus Christ at all - what the experience was like to be around the guy.

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  Jesus, Guy, Littles

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• Christmas time - an Enlightened Teacher came into the world, taught, and died. His message was simple: Forgive. While the human beings of this planet have still not absorbed this simple Truth, it remains the Truth.

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  Teacher, Simple, Forgiving

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• Jesus Christ was a simple man walked around, did a few miracles, said a few things and died. It was enough for him to say what he felt and glow with the light of eternity.

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  Jesus, Simple, Men

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• All he said was that we're all free if we pursue spirit. That's all he said. He didn't say let's set up a Vatican Concil. He didn't say, Martin Luther, you need to put our demands on the door.

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  Doors, Needs, Demand

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• People would start to follow him and they'd say: "Well why should I follow the Romans? This man says I can be free and do what I want." So he had to be put out of the way quickly because he was a revolutionary.

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  Men, People, Want

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• I would say that Jesus Christ and his followers were a cult, Buddha and his followers were a cult and Mohammed and his followers were a cult. Every religion starts out as a cult and if it becomes 'box office', it is accepted.

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  Jesus, Office, Followers

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• Christ was crucified because he threatened the tonal of the time. He was killed because he threatened the established order of the political regime.

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  Order, Political, Christianity

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• The Romans had to kill him because he was threatening the order because he had a great deal of personal power.

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  Order, Christianity, Threatening

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• The Jews didn't like him because he threatened their religion. He was saying things that didn't go with the order.

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  Order, Christianity, Jew

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• We know that many of the apostles of Christ were killed. Eleven out of 12 met violent deaths when they were just talking about God and light.

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  Light, Talking, Christianity

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• They didn't crucify Christ because they liked what he said.

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  Gestapo, Christianity, Christ

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• Christ said, 'Seek and ye shall find.' Learn the ways to seek which will expedite your journey and make it more fun.

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  Fun, Journey, Way

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• When you see paintings of some of the saints, or of Christ, they all have lights around their heads. What the painters are trying to convey is the psychic light, which is around everyone.

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  Light, Psychics, Trying

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• We use the word "God" as representative of that which is timeless, immortal and infinite, that which produces order, which holds together the nucleus of an atom, which gives us life and death, neither masculine nor feminine, not a person, beyond any comprehension.

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  God, Order, Life And Death

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• To become conscious of God, to become God's consciousness, to become God, to be God and to be beyond God, God being beyond God, God having an existence separate from the creation, to be that, to merge with that, to lose one's self and find one's self endlessly again and again in that is self-realization.

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  God, Self, Realization

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• Illusion doesn't mean that something is not real. Illusion simply means that something is less real than something else. This life and this world certainly exist - who is to say the reality of the dream is not real?

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  Dream, Real, Yoga

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• "The dream is real but it does not last" - This is an illusion.

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  Dream, Real, Yoga

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• "Nothing is as it seems" - This is an illusion.

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  Yoga, Illusion, Seems

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• "There are no illusions" - This is a gross illusion.

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  Yoga, Illusion, Gross

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• No matter which way you turn ... there's nothing but illuison.

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  Yoga, Matter, Way

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• How do we find a way out? By realizing that there's no place to go, that there's no way out, that there's no way in. All that exists is the Self.

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  Yoga, Self, Places To Go

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• The Self is infinite. The Self is eternal. You are that Self. Beyond words, thoughts, ideas, forms and belief systems. There is nothing but the Self.

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  Yoga, Self, Ideas

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• It is only when you have become that true Self consciously, when all these illusions have fallen away, that you will be perfectly free and perfectly happy.

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  Yoga, Self, Illusion

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• If silence only conveys the Self, if all words and thoughts are illusions, why do we discuss it?

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  Yoga, Self, Silence

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