Only alone can you go into eternity. Only alone can you feel the transcendental light. It is not a shared experience because if it is shared, you are down in duality. Frederick Lenz More Quotes by Frederick Lenz More Quotes From Frederick Lenz 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 buddhism stress inspirational If you were just you, you would be happy. But of course, you don't know who or what you are. So how can you possibly be happy? That is why you have got to study Zen...or something. Frederick Lenz buddhism would-be inspirational We are alive for a certain period of time in any given lifetime. We are competing against time. It is a race to see if we can wake up before we go to sleep again. That is the challenge. Frederick Lenz buddhism sleep inspirational Life is an endless matrix of existence. And as you experience it in that pure form, that's what we call enlightenment. Frederick Lenz enlightenment buddhism inspirational Life exists in countless forms in countless dimensions, in places that we simply cannot see. The essence of life - while it might not appear so when we watch television or watch our loved ones suffer - is good. Frederick Lenz buddhism essence inspirational Once you are enlightened, you can do whatever you want without fear or sorrow. You can go snowboarding, get married, stay single, be rich and famous, or live unknown in a high Himalayan cave. It is up to you. Frederick Lenz snowboarding buddhism inspirational 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 buddhism inspirational people The vast majority of the people who populate our planet live lives of quiet desperation that are all too often quite harsh and painful, lives in which events and circumstances usually don't turn out the way they had hoped or planned. Frederick Lenz live-life buddhism inspirational Even the rich aren't often happy. Their wealth is at best only a temporary distraction. It doesn't make them immune to emotional and mental suffering, or to disease and death. They too must deal with loneliness, the deaths of loved ones and the frustrations and boredom of old age. Frederick Lenz buddhism loneliness inspirational Fame does not make you happy. It just makes you look in the mirror a lot, worrying about how you look today for your audience. Frederick Lenz buddhism mirrors inspirational Fulfillment of desire taken to extremes doesn't necessarily make us happy. It tends to make us rather cynical. Frederick Lenz buddhism taken inspirational If you live for a very long while, you will have to watch your friends and loved ones die, your body age and lose its beauty and vigor, and your mental capacities fade. Frederick Lenz buddhism inspirational long Time holds the final claim check for everything we gain or attain in this lifetime. All of our possessions, along with the people we love, are only loaned to us for a very short time by eternity. Frederick Lenz buddhism inspirational 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 buddhism successful inspirational Even the lucky ones, who do manage to become happy by attaining their goals, live each day in fear of losing whatever it is they may have gained. Frederick Lenz buddhism goal inspirational We see very few people who are satisfied. They say that the only ones who are really happy are the enlightened or the fools. Frederick Lenz buddhism inspirational people The world you experience, every day and night of your life, is transient. They only last for the blink of an eye, and then they dissolve back into that unknowable and formless eternity. Frederick Lenz buddhism eye inspirational You've got to make a person aware of how miserable they really are and show them how happy they can be. Otherwise, why should they seek this nebulous goal called self-discovery. Frederick Lenz buddhism discovery inspirational There is an all powerful force or energy that creates all and draws all back into it. This is God. It is beyond intelligence, beyond analysis. Frederick Lenz buddhism powerful inspirational You must have total and impeccable trust in eternity. Whether you like it or not, eternity's in charge, so you might as well trust. You will feel better. Frederick Lenz buddhism feel-better inspirational
