You'll find that you will be able to reorder the island of your tonal so that it's in good shape - logical, orderly, neat, and well-defined. Frederick Lenz More Quotes by Frederick Lenz More Quotes From Frederick Lenz Life is not dependent upon our classifications and our categories, our science. But we are. We find it interesting and helpful. Frederick Lenz buddhism science interesting One function of the intellect is to catalog. But cataloging doesn't change anything. If we call it a rose, or by any other name, it still smells as sweet. The name doesn't really matter. It is convenient for us. Frederick Lenz buddhism sweet science A categorization implies a hierarchical way of seeing things. Life is really relational, not hierarchical. Hierarchical is a human way of looking at things. Relational is much more the way things are. Everything is connected. Frederick Lenz buddhism science way In reality, as any physicist will tell you, the physical world is made up of moving energy. All matter is energy. Frederick Lenz buddhism science moving The world glows all the time. All of the things that you have come to understand aren't. The greatest thinkers in the world see very little compared to the enlightened. Frederick Lenz buddhism science world There's no way we can possibly understand anything. But we can see things, we can perceive things, and we can wonder. We can just be in a world of awe and wonder. That's the best we can do. Frederick Lenz awe-and-wonder buddhism science Things are not necessarily logical. Logic is a secondary source reference. Everything is what it is. We have decided to apply rationale to things. It makes us feel better. Frederick Lenz buddhism feel-better science The body is a very low level machine language. The language of the soul, of the mind, is much more evolved. Frederick Lenz buddhism soul science To think the universe is only composed of the physical universe is to be rather shortsighted. Frederick Lenz buddhism science thinking The shortest distance between two points is your mind. It's not a straight line. Frederick Lenz buddhism distance science The world is the way the world is because we think that it is so. Frederick Lenz buddhism science thinking There is only eternity. That's our real body. The stars are our blanket. Time doesn't even exist, except in our own minds. Frederick Lenz buddhism stars real There is no time. There is no space. There is no condition. There is only awareness, awareness of these ideas. Frederick Lenz buddhism science ideas Time is a convenient filing system human beings have devised to segregate their experiences. Frederick Lenz filing buddhism science A surfer is poised on a wave on his board, cutting quickly to the left. He'll always be there, in that moment. He's never left it. He had no birth, he didn't go to school, he didn't purchase the board; none of those things ever were. Frederick Lenz buddhism cutting school Time is not a movement in space. Space is a movement in time. Frederick Lenz buddhism space science Time does not really exist as we know it; rather it's a transfiguration of a concept in which mortality, mutability, is conditioned. Frederick Lenz buddhism doe science I would suggest to you that at this moment you are the only self that you have ever had; you've never had a childhood; there wasn't a five-minute-ago time. Frederick Lenz buddhism self science Nothing is distinct and separate. Frederick Lenz buddhism science Chaos theory simply suggests that what appears to most people as chaos is not really chaotic, but a series of different types of orders with which the human mind has not yet become familiar. Frederick Lenz buddhism order science
