Frederick Lenz Quotes About Ego

• Human beings have become so afraid of the unknown, themselves, and each other that they deprive themselves of that innate ecstasy and love of life which comes with a human body, mind and spirit, by hiding behind the empty shell of their ego.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Love Life, Ego

• Meditation is the pathway to enlightenment. Move the ego aside and be still, open, clear, bright and fully conscious.

  Frederick Lenz

  Moving, Buddhism, Meditation

• Don't judge others. Always be open to them. Avoid the cult mentality, you know, the super-slick, "I'm superior because I meditate, because I'm on the pathway to enlightenment," the subtle ego nonsense, terrible trap.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Judging

• Nirvikalpa samadhi is a state of no mind, beyond the ten thousand states of mind, where there is nothing but perfection, where the self no longer exists...the ego dissolves into immortality.

  Frederick Lenz

  Self, Perfection, Ego

• Self-realization: No ego, no desires, no weight problems, no tax forms, no death to die, no life to live.

  Frederick Lenz

  Self, Weight Problems, Ego

• The ego holds us to this world. The ego is the feeling that you are. But you are not, nor have you ever been, nor will you ever be.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Ego, Feelings

• The light is not quantifiable. You experience it in meditation when thought stops. When you go beyond the limitations of the ego, the light is waiting for you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Light, Meditation

• The ego is not harmonious with happiness and spiritual development. In the process of spiritual transformation we refine it. In the fire of love we melt the ego down.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Yoga, Fire

• The illusion of selfhood, ego, a separate identity is false.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Ego, Identity

• You can't throw your ego away, but you can use its innate desire to experience that which is beyond itself to give you the impetus to meditate.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Giving, Meditation

• The ego is a false perception of self. It's an idea, a transitory identity that we've picked up.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Self, Ideas

• There's no difference between winning and losing. They are the same type of experience. Winning and losing are sensorial, affixed to an ego, blocked in time and space and none of them ultimately make you happy very long

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Winning

• When you are in a condition of light everything is ecstatic, everything is joyous, everything is beautiful. Your attention field is subtle. The ego is quiet. The mind is still. Your heart is happy.

  Frederick Lenz

  Beautiful, Heart, Buddhism

• Nature gives constantly to us. We as indendepent egos think we're important. Selfless giving has to do with overcoming the ego. The ego makes us unhappy.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Yoga, Thinking

• 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

• In the Yoga of Love we see that matter and spirit are one. It's only the ego that separates.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Ego, Matter

• What is there when the ego is gone? Eternity, love.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Ego, Gone

• When the sun sets, beautiful though it may be, billions of stars appear. The ego is but one sun. When that sun sets, there are endless suns, endless horizons beyond it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Beautiful, Stars, Ego

• You don't choose because if you choose you might make the wrong choice, based upon ego or illusion. Instead, you let eternity make all the choices for you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Choices, Ego

• Ego synthesized is selfhood, the sense of self-importance, that you really matter ... nothing could be further from the truth.

  Frederick Lenz

  Humility, Buddhism, Self

• Meditation is humility - the absence of thought, doubt, and ego.

  Frederick Lenz

  Humility, Buddhism, Meditation

• The bully on the block who beats up somebody doesn't become more powerful. All they do is walk around inside their own mind with an inflated ego.

  Frederick Lenz

  Powerful, Block, Buddhism

• Whenever you take the time to inspire someone, to aid them in their inner search, you'll find energy will come back to you - unless you are ego tripping or you are trying to manipulate them.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Ego, Inspire

• There is deception. People who think they are enlightened and it's just ego.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Thinking, People

• The gopis seek Krishna, another part of themselves that create ecstasy. The man seeks the woman, the woman seeks the man. The Tantric Buddhist seeks annihilation of the ego.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Men

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