Frederick Lenz Quotes About Values

• The world is filled with people who understand. I personally value people who don't understand. People who understand have nothing more to learn. People who don't understand have hope. Do you understand?

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, People, World

• When we lack etiquette, we trash things. We trash each other. We trash the environment. We lose sight of the value of things. We suffer alienation when our spirit is disconnected from our physical awareness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Sight

• If someone is in the same state of mind and doesn't seek to block your success, you have a friend. Such friends are rare, and if you find such a friend, value them.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Block, Buddhism

• Both light and dark are eternity. Human beings assign relative values to colors, but beyond the relative, there just is - what in Zen we call "suchness".

  Frederick Lenz

  Dark, Relative Value, Light

• Sit down and get out a piece of paper and start making lists. Ask yourself, are you in harmony with the things in your life? Are you adopting superficial values? Are you giving your being enough room? Are you doing new and creative things?

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Giving, Creative

• The teaching that we receive is not necessarily very accurate. The value systems that our cultures have developed are not every open. They are very restrictive. We live in an age that is not enlightened.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teaching, Buddhism, Humanity

• Stopping thought also involves shifting your values. Thought is stimulated by ideas that we have about life and the world.

  Frederick Lenz

  Ideas, Stopping, World

• We were imprinted with a value system as young children. The sensory experiences of life can trigger and stimulate a variety of associative thoughts and ideas.

  Frederick Lenz

  Children, Ideas, Triggers

• You see, that's the fun of Buddhism. We do have a wild card in the deck that can't be explained, that changes value continuously, and that's enlightenment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Fun, Buddhism, Enlightenment

• We label things through value systems that we have developed. But nothing is or is not unless we feel it is that way. We give ground to reality by creating it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Reality, Creating, Giving

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