Frederick Lenz famous quotes

The balance and patience factors are much more critical in surfing than they are in snowboarding ... if you're out surfing serious waves and you wipe out, you don't land on soft snow. It's usually either very sharp coral, or you get raked across the beach gravel and sand while you're tumbling underwater.
-- Frederick Lenz

#Beach #Snowboarding #Land

The way we gain wisdom in meditation is not by explanation. If you go into the planes of light, you will come out of the meditation knowing things ... things that are inexpressible.
-- Frederick Lenz

#Wisdom #Buddhism #Light

When you meditate and still your mind, you will gain the wisdom of knowing things in this world, in other worlds and beyond worlds - it just comes to you.
-- Frederick Lenz

#Wisdom #Buddhism #Other Worlds

Wisdom is the ability to do two things at once, to be in the world and enjoy it and at the same time, to be in the realms of light, to be in samadhi.
-- Frederick Lenz

#Wisdom #Buddhism #Two

Children are wise in a funny kind of way. They haven't developed so many vested interests of self. There is a wisdom, a lack of self-consciousness, that is innocence.
-- Frederick Lenz

#Wise #Wisdom #Children

True wisdom is to see and understand your relationship with the universe. When you gain that relational knowledge, then you are wise.
-- Frederick Lenz

#Wise #Wisdom #Buddhism

There is wisdom in not letting anyone really know who you are or what you are like. If you define yourself, people hold you in their mind a certain way making it difficult to change.
-- Frederick Lenz

#Wisdom #Buddhism #People

A person of knowledge and power never goes out looking for battles. All their battles are within.
-- Frederick Lenz

#Wisdom #Buddhism #Knowledge And Power

This world only brings things apart that come together, and brings things together that weren't together.
-- Frederick Lenz

#Wisdom #Buddhism #Together

Tragedy brings us closer to ourselves - it's the only thing that does.
-- Frederick Lenz

#Wisdom #Buddhism #Tragedy

Honestly admitting what you lost and not trying to rationalize it or push it off is an important step in self-assessment and mindfulness.
-- Frederick Lenz

#Wisdom #Buddhism #Assessment

If you are truly wise, then you reflect the universe and you are relational in your approach to things. You are a mirror of infinity. That is wisdom.
-- Frederick Lenz

#Wise #Wisdom #Buddhism

The ultimate intelligence of all things is your essence. Your mind is the universe. Your body is all things.
-- Frederick Lenz

#Wisdom #Buddhism #Essence

Knowledge is the ability to love, the ability to feel, the ability to probe the depths and the heights of life. It is the experience of the experiencer, and at the same time, it is beyond that.
-- Frederick Lenz

#Wisdom #Buddhism #Depth

The only loser who walks away from a wise man is the one who walks away.
-- Frederick Lenz

#Wise #Wisdom #Buddhism

Suffering follows the lack of wisdom.
-- Frederick Lenz

#Wisdom #Buddhism #Suffering

The universe is complicated and we're not going to get it all in one night or one incarnation or one infinity.
-- Frederick Lenz

#Wisdom #Buddhism #Night

Spiritual balance is to be straight with yourself.
-- Frederick Lenz

#Spiritual #Buddhism #Balance

Only a pure heart, a completely pure heart can house eternity.
-- Frederick Lenz

#Heart #Buddhism #House

Most people lead their lives like they drive their cars.
-- Frederick Lenz

#Buddhism #People #Car

There is always going to be pain. There is always going to be pleasure. But what is not always going to be there is balance, happiness. That is a personal decision.
-- Frederick Lenz

#Pain #Buddhism #Decision

Balance is to choose happiness, to feel that the purpose of life is to love, not necessarily to be loved, to be happy, to be conscious, to be aware, to be fulfilled.
-- Frederick Lenz

#Buddhism #Balance #Purpose

Balance is the ability to be happy in the midst of the most chaotic or even boring or transient circumstance.
-- Frederick Lenz

#Buddhism #Balance #Boring

When you're happy it's pretty tough to knock you over. You can handle whatever comes along in life.
-- Frederick Lenz

#Buddhism #Over You #Balance

In martial arts one of the first things that you learn is to be balanced. Balance is the central principle in architecture and design. Balance is a way of trying to talk about being at the center of things.
-- Frederick Lenz

#Art #Buddhism #Design