Frederick Lenz Quotes About God
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The reason you don't get to know God is because you're afraid. You're afraid of the immensity.
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It's amazing to me how many people who profess to be spiritual seekers are self-seekers, and how few of them ever consider God.
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Some people think God should in some way come to you and assist you, should answer your prayers. Why? It exists in perfect ecstasy beyond the dualistic consciousness. It's totally oblivious to you. It has no interest in your life or your death - it doesn't matter.
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To just burn out, to give up just because things don't go your way, to assume that there is no God, no infinite light - I think that's pretty petty, personally.
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What does God really look like stripped naked? That's the province of enlightenment...the formless, perfect face of existence.
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Most people's Gods are self-reflective. God just has to be like you. You get concerned, so you assume God must get concerned. You get pissed off, so you assume God must get pissed off. You're attached to things that you create, so you assume that God would be.
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We use the word "God" as representative of that which is timeless, immortal and infinite, that which produces order, which holds together the nucleus of an atom, which gives us life and death, neither masculine nor feminine, not a person, beyond any comprehension.
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You are god. To be conscious of that not just from the point of view of the human form, to be endless and beginningless perfect being, is to be enlightened.
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To become conscious of God, to become God's consciousness, to become God, to be God and to be beyond God, God being beyond God, God having an existence separate from the creation, to be that, to merge with that, to lose one's self and find one's self endlessly again and again in that is self-realization.
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The ecstasy and completion of absorption in God is so fantastic that you can't possibly have lost anything because all the things you've always loved and always experienced came forth from there and exist there and are always there.
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Heaven is a state of awareness. Hell is a state of awareness.
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Some people say: "There is no God; because, if there was a God, God would stop all the suffering." Nonsense! God is oblivious to suffering. God is beyond suffering. That's what makes God, God, by definition.
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If you can't make freinds with God, make freinds with someone is friends and maybe you'll get invited to the party.
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All the eyes of God are looking through all the stars, or looking at the stars through our eyes. There's only the eye of God everywhere, seeing and being in perfection always.
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To think that God is compassionate is a terrible mistake. To think that God is wrathful is equally stupid. God isn't emotional. You are. To superimpose your emotions on infinity is typically human.
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How can you give something to someone who has everything? If you think men are tough to shop for at Christmas, try God. God has everything except one thing, friends. God doesn't have friends.
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You're looking through the kaleidoscope of God and seeing God's face in so many ways, as friends, as strangers, passersby, country roads, jammed freeways, the cancer ward, the maternity ward - all the faces of God surround you at all times.
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We walk upon the grace of god. Nothing else exists except that.
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The one thing you can give God that will truly impress God is freindship. God is an eternal companion who is with you all the time - never judges, just is.
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Life is an endless experience of God's. God doesn't even exist in nirvana, yet God exists in all other realms.
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In order to understand God, you have to learn to listen. You're thoughts talk very loudly all the time. But God is very, very, very quiet. God doesn't speak through words or thoughts. God doesn't speak. God is silent.
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It's only with that absolute humility and purity that you can make friends with God; because, otherwise, you're just too busy with all your desires.
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God is not a person. God does not have a history. God does not have a future. God is beyond definition. We can say that your perception of this world is God.
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God is within your mind. God is within all things. As a matter of fact, there is nothing that is not God.
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From age to age an enlightened person comes along, one who has made friends with God. They're usually forgotten or scorned.
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If you hate yourself and your desires, well, you know, God is your desires and God is your self. As long as you hate God, you'll never realize God.
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God is not an objective correlative reality.
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Everything is God. Everything is light. It is only when we live in illusions, when there are shadows in our mind that we are afraid.
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It's up to you to avail yourself to knowledge. Knowledge doesn't need you. The idea of a compassionate God was formulated, obviously, by someone who didn't want to do any work.
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Moses goes to the top of the mountain and he comes back glowing, transformed. He became the vision.
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