Karma Yoga Quotes

• Though the names 'karma', 'yoga' and 'sannyasa' are different, the truth at the heart of both is the same.

  Vinoba Bhave

  Karma, Yoga, Heart

  Aryan Path, Volume 31, p. 508, 1960.

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• The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life's wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion.

  Hermann Hesse

  Beautiful, Philosophy, Gita

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• When you practice selfless giving, you're in balance and harmony with everything.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Yoga, Practice

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• Be kind, be loving, be generous. Give of yourself, give of your time and you'll be free. It's the oldest secret, the one thats most often forgotten - and that is to have fun through giving.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Fun, Yoga

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• Jnana, bhakti, yoga and karma - these are the four paths which lead to spiritual freedom. One must follow the path for which one is best suited. But in this age, special stress should be laid on karma yoga.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Karma, Spiritual, Stress

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• Selfless giving is love in action. Initially you will feel that you should help in a certain way, with a certain result. Do your best, but don't be concerned with results; do it for the infinite.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Yoga, Compassion

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• When you do something for someone else, it's for you. When you do something for yourself, it's for someone else.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Yoga

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• Whenever you engage in a selfless action that contributes to the welfare of others, this will create a vibratory pattern that will lead you into higher states of mind.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Yoga, Mind

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• Have the courage to be selfless in a world were such qualities are not admired. Dare to be differnt. Be crazy!

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Crazy, Yoga

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• You can only be really happy when you become what you really are.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Yoga, Really Happy

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• Be kind; you're only here for a while. No sense of superiority, just do things for others. It's really fun.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Fun, Yoga

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• There are persons who elected to give their existence to God. They are happy, happy in their self-giving.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Yoga, Self

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• You don't need a special task. Every task is special.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Yoga, Special

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• It's always said that when one is a soldier who dies in battle, you go to a very high world. There's a great and good karma for the soldier who dies in battle because it's an extended selfless giving.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Yoga, Selfless Giving

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• What you do affects your awareness field. When you do something selfless your attention feild is more clear, more lucid.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Yoga, Selfless

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• Karma is engendered by states of mind. If you are in a happy state of mind, that will engender one kind of karma. If you are in an unhappy state of mind, that will engender another kind of karma.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Mind, Unhappy

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• The true hallmark of how advanced a person is, is how they treat those around them. Not simply what they say or what they preach, but the results they generate, how kind they are.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Yoga, Kind

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• We must bring light to as many people as possible. Who has time to indulge in self-pity or guilt? In advanced self-giving you have no time for this. You just push these emotions out.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Yoga, Indulge In

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• When this life ends, I will be absorbed back into you. I have come forth from you . You are all good and you know all that there is. So please act in me and through me at every moment and every second. Let me be but an extension of your being. Teach me how to live and love selflessly, at all times.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Yoga, Self Love

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• Life itself is selfless giving. We're not given this life just for own amusement and pleasures.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Yoga, Selfless Giving

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• If you are unhappy - be that way in your bedroom - but whenever you come out into the world, in real selfless giving we push all of that aside and we smile, love and give to others.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Real, Yoga

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• The key to selfless giving is that you feel good when you do it and you feel good afterwards.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Yoga, Keys

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• Selfless giving presupposes something - that there is a lumunious reality.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Yoga, Reality

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• Now is wanted intense Karma-Yoga with unbounded courage and indomitable strength in the heart. Then only will the people of the country be roused.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Karma, Country, Yoga

  Swami Vivekananda, Swami Saradananda (1964). “Swamiji's Message to a Disciple: Reprint from the Talks with Swami Vivekananda”

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• The yoga of selfless giving is easy for anyone to practice. The key is detachment. The spirit is unattachment to results.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Yoga, Selfless Giving

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