Humility means freedom. It provides growth and takes you out of the cycle of change that you are currently in, which is stagnation. Frederick Lenz More Quotes by Frederick Lenz More Quotes From Frederick Lenz Enlightenment is getting off the wheel. Enlightenment is to become pure awareness. Frederick Lenz enlightenment wheels awareness There is no final stage in nirvana. Nirvana is beyond definition. It is not quantifiable. Frederick Lenz enlightenment finals definitions It is the way it is. But it is not the way it appears to be. Enlightenment. Frederick Lenz enlightenment way You have to become that infinite formless creation, which is life, to know it. It cannot be known in an intellectual sense. That is enlightenment. Frederick Lenz enlightenment infinite intellectual It is not special to be enlightened, just different. An enlightened person is someone who has dedicated not just this lifetime but thousands of lifetimes to becoming awareness. Frederick Lenz enlightenment different special What the enlightened person sees no one could ever tell or describe. Wonder beyond belief. We live in a universe filled with wonder. It is wonder just to live. Frederick Lenz enlightenment belief wonder People think that if you are enlightened you are not in touch with the pulse of the physical. Au contraire! The higher you go, the deeper you become, and the more conscious you are of the physical and the sensorial. Frederick Lenz enlightenment people thinking How could being the entire cosmos and all of its wonder and all of its stages and cycles, and yet being that which is beyond them all, the invisible, be extinction? Extinction? The extinction of what, of whom? How can that which has never been be extinguished? Frederick Lenz enlightenment buddhism suffering We have to leave everything we have been, a perceiver, "I" as an individual. That is enlightenment. Frederick Lenz enlightenment individual has-beens Enlightenment is the culmination of self-knowledge, pure unadulterated knowledge. Not knowledge you can get from reading a book, it comes from perfecting your awareness, your mind. Frederick Lenz reading self book There is a still point in eternity. There is a still point where all things intersect. There is a still point beyond life, time, and death. Your experience of the still point is enlightenment. Frederick Lenz life-time enlightenment eternity It is called enlightenment, nirvana, God, truth, call it what you will. There is no activity other than the eternal activities of the universe, perfect being, the awareness of all suchness, knowledge. Frederick Lenz enlightenment awareness perfect Light by its very nature is endless. Therefore you can never say you've had the ultimate experience in light - it goes on forever. Frederick Lenz light goes-on forever Once you have mastered the ten thousand states of mind, it's paranirvana, the absorption into the stillness forever. Frederick Lenz enlightenment mind forever Enlightenment doesn't occur by accident. It is a deliberate decision that someone makes again and again. It is something you grow into and develop in. Frederick Lenz enlightenment grows decision Nirvana is a step beyond. You dissolve into the universe. The universe dissolves into you until there is no longer a difference. There is no sense of individual self as perceiver. Frederick Lenz enlightenment differences self There is no movement in Nirvana. There is no sameness. And one does not consider it to be timeless because one is not one. It is you, my friend, who go away. Frederick Lenz buddhism going-away suffering We've decided what we are. That's the dream. When the dream fades, it's not that we don't exist. How could we not exist since we never existed? Frederick Lenz fades enlightenment dream We erase ourselves; we go away. But we don't really go away, and we don't really erase ourselves, since we were never there to begin with. We weren't there to begin with in that what we are, or conceive of ourselves as, is a perception. Frederick Lenz enlightenment going-away perception Enlightenment does not put an end to awareness. It puts an end to limited awareness. It doesn't necessarily put an end to incarnation. It puts an end to reincarnation. Frederick Lenz enlightenment awareness doe