Frederick Lenz Quotes About Joy

• You are complete. Completion has taken place in you eons ago. Accept yourself. Enjoy yourself. This time will never be again, so fulfill the moment with your own self-joy.

  Frederick Lenz

  Happiness, Taken, Buddhism

• We break off obsession by laughing at ourselves, by learning to be funny, by just seeing the joy in life and by having a terrific love for this world.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Break Off, Laughing

• All the joys in all the worlds of all beings who have ever been or will ever be, will never equal the perfection of one moment of absorption into the stillness of nirvana.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Perfection, Joy

• The attainment of enlightenment makes you happy forever. It frees you from the mental and emotional pains that human beings experience every day. You live in a condition of ecstasy, brightness and joy all of the time.

  Frederick Lenz

  Pain, Buddhism, Emotional

  Frederick Lenz (1995). “Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure”, St Martins Press

• Sensations of peace, joy, and love will enter into you. They will be very subtle at first. Then they will grow stronger.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Chakra Meditation, Joy

• Knowledge of the Enlightenment Cycle, of the ways that inner dimensions and nirvana work, lifts you far above the transient sorrows, pains, pleasures and joys that the unenlightened masses experience.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Pain, Joy

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

• I think that pain gives us appreciation of joy - it's a package deal. And I definitely think that the joys of life far outweigh the pain.

  Frederick Lenz

  Appreciation, Pain, Buddhism

• Samadhi is an experience of such depth, such joy, such indifference and such love, that nothing else is really like it or worthwhile in comparison, yet it gives shape, color and meaning to everything.

  Frederick Lenz

  Color, Giving, Joy

• Our failure to see and access the pure joy and radiance of life is owning to a lack of awareness. In any situation there is beauty. Even at the moment of one's death there is beauty.

  Frederick Lenz

  Philosophy, Joy, Radiance

• When you meditate you feel joy, harmony, peace, stillness, ecstasy, laughter, certainty, courage, strength, awareness and immortality. In the beginning you will feel these things vaguely, a distant knocking at your castle door.

  Frederick Lenz

  Laughter, Buddhism, Doors

• 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

• We're not aware of the joy of our own immortality. When we give to someone else it opens a doorway and gives us the vision to see those we give to are God. As we see this in others, suddenly we see it within ourselves.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Yoga, Giving

• The spectrum that most people exist in this world is very mundane and very unhappy. Certainly human beings are capable of experiencing great joy and happiness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, People

• Most successful people find out that the attainment of their goals doesn't necessarily bring them the happiness and joy they assumed; their happiness is short-lived.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Successful

• There is a certain degree of pain to be experienced in the search for self-knowledge, as there is a certain amount of joy. You just do it because you find yourself doing it. There just doesn't seem to be much else worthwhile.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Pain, Buddhism

• The human life form vibrates at a certain rate, but all vibratory rates are not suitable for human life. So it's very necessary to meditate on higher octave energy, on the clear light, on joy, on happiness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Light, Joy

• Human beings have illusions. The enlightened don't have illusions. They see things as they are, and in that seeing, they see ecstasy and joy. They see the play of life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Play, Joy

• There are worlds beyond anything you can imagine; there are joys beyond anything you have experienced. There are ecstasies that are undreamed of, I assure you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Other Worlds, Joy

• An enlightened being comes into the world because they can help. They are off the wheel. They will experience different states of mind. They will suffer. They will know joy. But ultimately, they are free of all that.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Joy, Mind

• We've developed a very complex filing system for existence. We see things in terms of good or bad. We feel happiness, joy, pain, loss, guilt and remorse.

  Frederick Lenz

  Pain, Buddhism, Loss

• Imagine wave after wave of joy passing through your whole body. As each wave passes through your body, feel that all worries, tensions, anxieties and problems are being washed away.

  Frederick Lenz

  Worry, Joy, Anxiety

• You are moving in and out of different advanced states of mind through your practice of meditation and mindfulness. It's that level of excellence that gives you joy in life, not the fact that you won or lost.

  Frederick Lenz

  Moving, Buddhism, Practice

• It is fun to be outside; it's good to move your body and there is just a joy in sports and athletics.

  Frederick Lenz

  Sports, Fun, Moving

• You have but a short time to live in this world. As you age, you will experience the pains of aging. If your hopes and joys rest upon the body, then you will suffer greatly.

  Frederick Lenz

  Pain, Joy, Suffering

• Your life is pure joy, pure ecstasy, when you live in humility.

  Frederick Lenz

  Humility, Buddhism, Joy

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