Frederick Lenz Quotes About Desire

• The experience of light in a very pure form always creates happiness. The experience of desire and aversion tends to create unhappiness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Light, Suffering

• Purity is innocence, the innocence of lack of self. Desire is innocent unless it's connected with self.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Self, Desire

• There are two worlds, the world of desire and the world of enlightenment. The world of enlightenment doesn't go anywhere. It is endless, luminous perfection. The world of desire leads to more desire.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Two, Perfection

• Some come to a teacher for power. They still have all the desires, angers and jealousies of an unevolved person. Consequently, they become destructive both to themselves and to others.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Buddhism, Desire

• Why don't you like being you for a change? Just be different and don't hate yourself and feel very good about all your different desires and all the things you didn't want and want. Go get them all, and see what it's like.

  Frederick Lenz

  Hate, Philosophy, Desire

• 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

• It's only with that absolute humility and purity that you can make friends with God; because, otherwise, you're just too busy with all your desires.

  Frederick Lenz

  God, Humility, Desire

• You start meditation as an average human being who is filled with vagueness and not much purpose or definition, who is controlled by their desires, your mind spins all over the place, your senses spin all over the place, out of control.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Average, Meditation

• If you hate yourself and your desires, well, you know, God is your desires and God is your self. As long as you hate God, you'll never realize God.

  Frederick Lenz

  God, Hate, Self

• You're much too hung up on all of your ideas and your desires. You still have not penetrated the essence of yoga.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Essence, Ideas

• Naturally, to follow dharma, we have to find out what it is. You have to struggle with it. The answer will not come easily. You will be swayed by your desires, conditioning, and those around you who have ideas about what you should do, what is proper, what is improper.

  Frederick Lenz

  Struggle, Buddhism, Ideas

• 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

• You can lie to yourself and fool yourself and rationalize that the choice you're making is what is right and what is true and what leads to liberation, when it's actually only the fulfillment of desire.

  Frederick Lenz

  Lying, Buddhism, Choices

• When you meditate you can stand back from your desire. When you silence the mind and there is stillness, only then can you tell if a desire is dharma.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Silence, Mind

• Fulfillment of desire taken to extremes doesn't necessarily make us happy. It tends to make us rather cynical.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Taken, Buddhism

• It is acceptance of the will of God - waiting, if necessary, forever, happily rising above your desires and above your frustrations to always do what is right. Always do what is right. This is the spiritual study.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Buddhism, Acceptance

• As a sensitive person around other people, you feel their desires, you feel their angers, and you feel their frustrations. You begin to believe that these desires, angers, and frustrations are yours.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Believe, Buddhism

• We hide in relationships. We hide in material possessions. We hide in ambitions, secret desires, hates, frustrations, jealousy, self-ptiy, in our insecurity - and more than anything our vanity and our egotism.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Hate, Yoga

• The world appears solid to most people. It is filled with their pain, their desires, their private ecstasies, their expectations. They are that world - nothing glows.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Pain, Buddhism

• Selflessness implies fun. Its fun to be free. Freedom is inner stillness and not being haunted by your desires, your fears, your aggressive tendencies ... it's being cool.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Fun, Yoga

• Happiness is just being you, where you are right now. Allow yourself to be you. Shut off all the silly thoughts and desires and crazy emotions

  Frederick Lenz

  Happiness, Crazy, Silly

• We wait for the fulfillment of our desires. We wait with hope, apathy, resignation, belief. We become despondent, elated. We wait

  Frederick Lenz

  Waiting, Suffering, Desire

• To run away from life and desire is impossible because you are life and you have desire. Accept that this is part of your physical condition and see that these aspects are not really indigenous to what you are.

  Frederick Lenz

  Running, Buddhism, Desire

• The planes of light give you the power to rise above circumstance, the power to rise above your desires and your aversions.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Light, Giving

• Happiness is self-generated as the mind becomes still. As we become involved with the desires of the world, we lose that centering, that stillness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Happiness, Buddhism, Self

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