When we experience fear, it cuts us off from our power. It cuts us off from knowledge and experience. It is a guillotine that falls and separates. Frederick Lenz More Quotes by Frederick Lenz More Quotes From Frederick Lenz Selfless giving presupposes something - that there is a lumunious reality. Frederick Lenz karma yoga reality We have two choices in life: One is to fulfill ourselves. The other is to take the time and energy that we would utilize in fulfilling ourselves and use it to make others happy. Frederick Lenz make-others-happy karma yoga You suffer because you try to fulfill yourself. You think of yourself in a limited way. Frederick Lenz karma yoga thinking If we look further, we see that we actually contain all of existence. Everyone who has ever been or will ever be, is in some way contained in our awareness. Our awareness is like the sky, it's endless. Frederick Lenz karma yoga sky We try to fulfill ourselves, even though our inner voice tells us to become all that we are - still, we run from it. Frederick Lenz karma yoga running We hide in relationships. We hide in material possessions. We hide in ambitions, secret desires, hates, frustrations, jealousy, self-ptiy, in our insecurity - and more than anything our vanity and our egotism. Frederick Lenz karma yoga hate If your nature is infinite awareness trapped in a body, suddenly there's a lack of happiness, a lack of freedom. No matter what you get you'll never be happy, because these are all trinkets. Frederick Lenz karma yoga body If a bird is used to flying and you put in a a cage, it won't be a happy bird; It wants to fly; that's its nature. Your nature is infinite awareness. Frederick Lenz karma yoga bird You have no fixed self. This is only an illusion that causes you to feel pain and suffering. Frederick Lenz karma pain yoga The reason why we're not happy is because we believe consciously and subconsciously that we're separate from god, eternal awareness. Frederick Lenz karma yoga believe We define a world. We build a house, then after building the house we enter into it and we never leave it. Frederick Lenz karma yoga house Whenever we just try to please ourselves, all we do is cover up another window in the little house we're stuck in. Frederick Lenz karma yoga house Whenever we do something for someone else, we affirm that we are not simply in it for ourselves, that our self is someone else, is everyone else. Frederick Lenz karma yoga self What you do affects your awareness field. When you do something selfless your attention feild is more clear, more lucid. Frederick Lenz selfless karma yoga When you do something "selflish" you'll feel constricted and restricted. You won't be happy. Frederick Lenz karma yoga feels Those who pursue a worldy life - who try to get others to do what they want, to peform for them, who use and abuse in the name of their own happiness - are miserable. Frederick Lenz karma yoga names Feeling "comfortable" is the short path to annihilation. Frederick Lenz karma yoga feelings If your life is based around your being comfortable, you're not very comfortable. You suffer quite a bit - becuase in the realm of the senses there is not only pleasure, but there is pain. Frederick Lenz karma pain yoga Selfless giving changes our concept of our identity. When we give to others our unselfishness removes the spot of "self" that stained our awareness. Frederick Lenz karma yoga self We preceive that God is in all of those we give to. Frederick Lenz karma yoga giving