Frederick Lenz Quotes About 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Instead of your ego directing you and making countless mistakes, allow yourself to be guided by the invisible principles of the universe within your action.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mistake, Health, Buddhism

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

• For men, it's absolutely essential to stop believing that they're superior to women because that very belief engenders ego, which sets them off-balance. Therefore, they don't realize that they're being manipulated by the second attention of woman because their ego won't permit them.

  Frederick Lenz

  Women, Believe, Ego

• When we interact with others the ego manifests. We have to show that we're superior or that we know more, are more spiritual, evolved - or that we're the worst, everyone is better.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Humility, Buddhism

• Only the ego can fear, experience hate, lust and jealousy. Humility experiences none of these things - it merges into the transcendental awareness of perfection.

  Frederick Lenz

  Hate, Humility, Buddhism

• In the West, we think of sports and athletics as individual achievement, the thrill of victory, the agony of defeat; it all revolves around the ego. This has nothing to do with the Zen of sports and athletics.

  Frederick Lenz

  Sports, Health, Buddhism

• The ego seeks fame and fortune. Humility doesn't seek at all - it accepts.

  Frederick Lenz

  Humility, Buddhism, Ego

• There is another kind of wisdom, the wisdom of following - the wisdom of not taking the lead with your ego.

  Frederick Lenz

  Ego, Taoism, Kind

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