Frederick Lenz Quotes About Overcoming

• Humor enables us to deal with and overcome many of the most painful and difficult situations in our lives.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Difficult Situations, Overcoming

• When you sit and meditate and begin to experience expanded states of mind, you will be afraid. The light makes most people very, very afraid. The only way to overcome the fear is walking down into the light.

  Frederick Lenz

  Light, People, Mind

• How can you possibly overcome your fears, doubts, worries and other problems? You can't. You simply don't have the capacity. Fortunately, the infinite can do all of these things for you. How? Because it is lacking in nothing.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Worry

• To overcome stress you have to find out something. You've got to do some research and homework. You need to find out who you are today.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Stress, Buddhism

• If you learn to lead your life strategically and strongly, you can overcome the opposition. But running away, you never overcome anything. The pathway to enlightenment is for the warrior, the samurai.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Running, 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

• Power is the big obstacle, or one of them, that you have to overcome and learn to deal with effectively before you can reach enlightenment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Power, Enlightenment, Overcoming

• Meditation will give you the power to overcome fear. As you sit and meditate each day, it makes you stronger. The energy of the universe flows through your mind, your body, and your life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Giving, Meditation

• Women must work doubly hard to overcome their conditioning in order to become enlightened. They must erase both conscious and unconscious ideas of sexual inferority that have been programmed into their awareness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Women, Order, Ideas

• Step one in overcoming fears is to make a fear list. Make a list of all the things that you are afraid of. Start out with the small fears and conquer them.

  Frederick Lenz

  Overcoming, Gaining Power, Lists

• Overcoming fear has nothing to do with abandoning common sense. We retain our common sense, but we lose that emotion that is fear.

  Frederick Lenz

  Common Sense, Overcoming, Gaining Power

• Overcoming fear is a critical factor for anyone who wishes to be really happy, or anyone who wishes to become enlightened

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Humanity, Wish

• Your mind is turbulent because you're filled with desires, frustrations. You want too many things. You are afraid of too many things. It is necessary to overcome both attraction and repulsion to still the mind.

  Frederick Lenz

  Frustration, Mind, Desire

• How to overcome fear? Be around people who are fearless.

  Frederick Lenz

  People, Fearless, Overcoming

• Loneliness is a feeling that is created by our ego. The ego feels separate from the rest of creation. The answer to overcoming those feelings is ecstasy.

  Frederick Lenz

  Happiness, Loneliness, Buddhism

• If you are afraid of other people take a martial arts class. The best way to overcome fear is learn to be proficient in martial arts.

  Frederick Lenz

  Art, Health, Buddhism

• As you go into light for longer and longer periods, as you progress in your meditation practice, you transform, you become illumined, you overcome all limitation, all sorrow, and all pain. You learn not to be bound by desire, and eventually you transcend death itself.

  Frederick Lenz

  Pain, Buddhism, Light

• Learn to overcome the imprinting that you now have and gain a new and higher imprinting that will lead you into the luminous spheres of awareness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Overcoming, Gains

• There is a sense of competition in Zen. You are competing with your thoughts and trying to overcome them.

  Frederick Lenz

  Competition, Trying, Overcoming

• How do you overcome the negative karmas and problems and misery that occur to people who abuse power? You stop abusing power.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Buddhism, People

• The teacher will have a certain imprint, and each teacher imprints differently. Ultimately the imprint of the teacher is a limitation that you will have to overcome in your final stages of knowledge.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Buddhism, Overcoming

• A person who wants to progress more rapidly and wishes to overcome unhappiness sooner, should try to find an enlightened master.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Wish, Progress

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

• You must learn to meditate and stop your thoughts. You must overcome all egotism and selfishness by serving others. You must cleanse your mind so that enlightenment will find a happy place to reside there.

  Frederick Lenz

  Effort, Mind, Enlightenment

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

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