Frederick Lenz Quotes About Personality

• You have thousands of selves inside you. Meditation is a process of peeling back the layers of the self. We start with peeling back the personality from this lifetime.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Self

• The surface personality is only the beginning of what we are. So as we meditate, we still that surface personality, we can see beyond it, and we see that we encompass multitudes.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Personality

• There's a different film being made in every mind. And of course, the star of the film is the mind, the personality, the self.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Stars, Ignorance

• Meditation is the ultimate selfless act, because when you meditate you are sacrificing your puny personality for the universal reality.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Yoga, Sacrifice

• You are fighting against nothingness all the time by creating a series of shields that you call personality, life history, feelings, ideas, and ways of seeing.

  Frederick Lenz

  Fighting, Creating, Ideas

• You must be kind to others. You must foster a caretaker personality of gentleness and perseverance, even in the midst of adversity.

  Frederick Lenz

  Perseverance, Adversity, Buddhism

• Personality is a manifestation of ego. Ego is the central sense of separateness that a person has from the rest of the universe. Personality is the form that that separateness take.

  Frederick Lenz

  Ignorance, Personality, Ego

• The samskaras that were developed in previous incarnations are usually hidden by the temporary amnesia of infancy and by the transient personality.

  Frederick Lenz

  Personality, Samskara, Infancy

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

• When you die you forget. Death is a sleep, a forgetting. You forget about your previous lifetime. The essence of your being is the same. But at death, the personality dissolves

  Frederick Lenz

  Death, Sleep, Essence

• Changing the way you dress can make it easier to make deeper changes in the structure of your personality.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Personality, Dresses

• The personality structure at the time of death dissolves. You will never be exactly the you you are again.

  Frederick Lenz

  Death, Personality, Structure

• Our adult personality is a mirror image of who we were in the last stage of our life in our previous incarnation.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mirrors, Personality, Adults

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

• There is the experience of enlightenment, to be very aware of what lies beyond the boundaries of cognitive perception, reflection and self-awareness as seen by the personality.

  Frederick Lenz

  Lying, Buddhism, Reflection

• People who are enlightened in previous lifetimes have a certain degree of difficulty in regaining their enlightenment. Sometimes it comes in childhood. Sometimes it takes many years to reintegrate the personality structure that they gained when they first entered into this world.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Years, People

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