Frederick Lenz Quotes About Feelings

• If you are able to stop feeling sorry for yourself, and to contribute to the betterment of this world and of those around us, you will experience a high that is beyond my ability to express.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Sorry, Buddhism

• Self-honesty is not putting yourself down or feeling sorry for yourself. Self-honesty is looking at things as they are and then being compelled to make changes.

  Frederick Lenz

  Honesty, Sorry, Self

• Intelligence is something that is not just thinking, it's feeling. Ultimately, the highest reflection of intelligent life is cooperative life in which all benefit.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Science, Reflection

• In Tantric Buddhism our feeling is that there is no problem with the sensual world unless you have a tremendous attraction or aversion to it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Feelings, Sensual

• To meditate, you need to feel, and feeling is a lost art. You need to feel the stillness of existence and also the sound of existence. You need to feel that which lies beyond your awareness field, and that which is within it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Art, Lying, Buddhism

• I live in the constant newness of aspiration. Whatever I think, I ignore. Whatever I feel, I don't trust. Yet I listen to my thoughts and follow my feelings.

  Frederick Lenz

  Thinking, Feelings, Rama

• My feeling is that drugs and alcohol take away from the pure experience of meditation. That does not mean that occasionally, a person couldn't have a glass of wine or a drink.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mean, Wine, Glasses

• People over-focus on teachers as an excuse to avoid their own life, and that way they fail to take responsibility for themselves. They have this feeling that the teacher will just take care of them.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Buddhist, Responsibility

• Meditation essentially means having a great time. Some people have applied a sense or a feeling to the meditative experience, such that, meditation has become a quantifiable religious experience, which means it's not any fun!

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Religious, Fun

• In this world people love to talk and be active. Everyone wants to express their opinion. Listen in meditation, not to your thoughts but to your feelings.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, People, Meditation

• All I have to teach you are feelings, the words don't matter much. But as you listen, feel the stillness of my mind, not my mind but of mind...infinite mind.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Feelings

• Feeling "comfortable" is the short path to annihilation.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Yoga, Feelings

• 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

• We're too insignificant and small to really be able to do anything, except cry, not unhappily, but an inner cry, a feeling of reaching to God.

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  Yoga, Feelings, Able

• You can love infinity, eternity, Scotty dogs, sports, work, play, the feelings of being alive, the earth, the sky, the fire, the wind ... there's a lot you can love.

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  Sports, Dog, Yoga

• When we are very young children we know how to feel. It's innate. But as we lead a lifetime, we pick up so many thoughts, impressions, feelings, and ideas, that our sensitivity goes away.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Children, Buddhism

• Mindfulness is paying attention to what is going on. Just look at beauty. Not just the beauty of things you see with your eyes, but beautiful feelings, beautiful awareness. There is no such thing as reality. Reality is what you make it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Beautiful, Eye, Buddhism

• Personal power is a feeling that everybody is looking for called satisfaction. It is different from enlightenment, but you need personal power to become enlightened. Personal power is not the end of the process.

  Frederick Lenz

  Feelings, Enlightenment, Different

• Winning and losing are feelings; something in us knows if we have won or lost.

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  Success, Buddhism, Winning

• As long as you exist, you are aware of the manifest universes through the senses, through feelings and through mind.

  Frederick Lenz

  Ignorance, Long, Feelings

• It's not what you do - it's the intensity of your feeling that determines how far you go in the spiritual life.

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  Spiritual, Effort, Feelings

• There's a resonance inside us, a sense of who we are. We're a multi-bodied traveler. We're an essence. We're a feeling, an awareness that has an ancient existence.

  Frederick Lenz

  Essence, Feelings, Who We Are

• If one were blind, one can simply focus on a feeling.

  Frederick Lenz

  Focus, Feelings, Blind

• Karma means that through your thoughts and feelings and actions, you are generating a state of mind. That state of mind has a view. That view will cause things to happen to you or not happen to you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Mean, Views

• "The person next to me meditates better than I do. They're purer." - This is the ego feeling sorry for itself.

  Frederick Lenz

  Sorry, Humility, Buddhism

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