Frederick Lenz Quotes About Happiness
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The worst thing you can do is to sit and brood and feel sorry for yourself. Nor should you feel wrong about doing this, since all of us do from time to time.
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Happiness is found principally in meditation. Let your mind flow out into eternity. You have to exert some effort. Then you will notice a subtle smile on your face.
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Real happiness is something most people never know. What we experience in deep meditation, that ecstasy is beyond what human beings call happiness
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Loneliness is a feeling that is created by our ego. The ego feels separate from the rest of creation. The answer to overcoming those feelings is ecstasy.
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Power doesn't make you happy. Actually, power without knowledge and balance is problematic. Power is something that will automatically follow when you have knowledge. The two are really the same, in a certain sense.
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Life is a game in which happiness is the goal.
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Happiness is not the same as pleasure. Pleasure is an immediate experience, very transient in nature, that's enjoyable, and if we experience a great deal of it - there's a sense of satiation.
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When you laugh at the world, the world dissolves.
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Happiness is something that you don't postpone. If you are postponing happiness - it is something you will probably never experience much of.
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Consistency is nice, I think, personally. I like to be consistently happy. I like to be consistently more aware and more conscious of the truth.
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Unhappiness is really an incorrect way of seeing. When we are unhappy we don't see life as it really is. We are in a condition of veiled light, of shadows.
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Don't just sit there. Go do something and don't expect that it's going to be fun unless you make it fun. You have got to work on things. That is when you are happy.
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Happiness is self-generated as the mind becomes still. As we become involved with the desires of the world, we lose that centering, that stillness.
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I can't give you happiness. I can show you where it is, but I can't give it to you. How can I give you what you already have? You have to get it yourself, inside your mind.
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Discrimination means keeping the negative and unhappy thoughts away and allowing the pretty thoughts to come inside you.
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If you are not as happy as you used to be, chances are you are not meditating properly. You may be trying to skip steps. You are using power incorrectly. Your motives are not pure. You don't vibrate quickly.
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Nobody can make you happy but yourself. Things occupy us, people occupy us, but they don't make us happy. If we are honest, what makes us happy is to experience spirit.
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Smile sometimes when things aren't going well, and maybe realize when they aren't going well, they are.
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Let the rain of unhappy and tragic experiences fall, as sometimes it inevitably must, even in the lives of the enlightened masters. If your mind has become one with nirvana, you will remain happy at all times.
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Life should be continually brighter. We are continually seeking our own innocence. We want to recapture it for eternity. It's in there, but we lose touch with it.
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If you're a sniveler, a whiner, a complainer, you will never be happy. We all have that side. Get a little stoical and just take the pain.
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If we immerse ourselves in the ultimate good, we will have this silly smile on our face or perhaps just inside our hearts. That is what illumination is.
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Happiness is not dependent upon outer circumstance. Happiness is falling in love with everything around you, everything inside of you.
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Forgiveness is the best revenge.
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People are unhappy because they don't understand life; by happy, I mean complete, aware, conscious, poignant, caring, loving, unaffected, cosmic, simplistic, humble, excited, passive - everything. You are everything.
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We are miracles. So don't deny yourself the miracle of happiness.
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Take a yoga class, study different forms of self-discovery. Some people are crazy and fanatical, avoid them. People who are balanced and calm and introspective, associating with them will raise your energy level.
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Put a smile on your face. Don't sit in the waiting room of life. Go do something, happily.
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Happiness is just being you, where you are right now. Allow yourself to be you. Shut off all the silly thoughts and desires and crazy emotions
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Focus on beauty all day long. Realize how incredibly beautiful your life is. How incredibly beautiful it is to feel, to look around, to be, to experience all this wonder.
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