Frederick Lenz Quotes About Innocence
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Purity is innocence, the innocence of lack of self. Desire is innocent unless it's connected with self.
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Without innocence, nothing can further, as they say in the I Ching.
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Consider your second attention as a spiritual perceiver. Consider how you use it. You may plead innocence. You're not doing anything wrong. Don't feel that you've sinned. You have done what you had to do to survive, as did your mother, as did your grandmother.
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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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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.
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In addition to innocence, we have to have knowledge of good and evil.
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Innocence does not protect you from the evil designs of others.
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The person who takes power will never be happy with those things they gain. They have lost their essential balance and innocence. And without innocence, nothing can further, as they say in the I Ching.
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