Karma Yoga Quotes - Page 3

• If I give Susan a new Cuisinart then she'll be happy ... If she's thankful to me, my life will be better ... she will do something for me.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Yoga, Giving

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• Self-giving means that we have to understand the nature of giving. When most people give, they give expecting a return on their investment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Yoga, Mean

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• If, when you give to someone you think you're better than they are because your practing selfless giving, you're not loving.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Yoga, Thinking

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• We could be unhappy and discouraged for ourselves, but we're trying to be in a high vibratory state so we can be of service to others.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Yoga, Unhappy

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• You have no fixed self. This is only an illusion that causes you to feel pain and suffering.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Pain, Yoga

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• We define a world. We build a house, then after building the house we enter into it and we never leave it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Yoga, House

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• If your nature is infinite awareness trapped in a body, suddenly there's a lack of happiness, a lack of freedom. No matter what you get you'll never be happy, because these are all trinkets.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Yoga, Body

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• Whenever we just try to please ourselves, all we do is cover up another window in the little house we're stuck in.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Yoga, House

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• The reason why we're not happy is because we believe consciously and subconsciously that we're separate from god, eternal awareness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Believe, Yoga

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• We hide in relationships. We hide in material possessions. We hide in ambitions, secret desires, hates, frustrations, jealousy, self-ptiy, in our insecurity - and more than anything our vanity and our egotism.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Hate, Yoga

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• We try to fulfill ourselves, even though our inner voice tells us to become all that we are - still, we run from it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Running, Yoga

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• Those who pursue a worldy life - who try to get others to do what they want, to peform for them, who use and abuse in the name of their own happiness - are miserable.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Yoga, Names

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• If a bird is used to flying and you put in a a cage, it won't be a happy bird; It wants to fly; that's its nature. Your nature is infinite awareness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Yoga, Bird

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• If we look further, we see that we actually contain all of existence. Everyone who has ever been or will ever be, is in some way contained in our awareness. Our awareness is like the sky, it's endless.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Yoga, Sky

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• Meditation is the ultimate selfless act, because when you meditate you are sacrificing your puny personality for the universal reality.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Yoga, Sacrifice

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• We can't allow ouselves to be depresses or discouraged. There are people who depend on us, things to accomplish. We only have a little bit of time in this world before death swallows us up.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Depressing, Yoga

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• When you do something "selflish" you'll feel constricted and restricted. You won't be happy.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Yoga, Feels

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• I practice selfless giving not because I'm remarkable but just because I find that its terrifically fun!

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Fun, Yoga

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• Whenever we do something for someone else, we affirm that we are not simply in it for ourselves, that our self is someone else, is everyone else.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Yoga, Self

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• If we give purely, it opens up a doorway in our heart and it gives us the vision to see that those we give to are God.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Yoga, Heart

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• Christ didn't have to. Buddha didn't have to. They came back to teach. They came back to die, to suffer, when it was no longer necessary for them to do so.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Yoga, Suffering

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• You can tell a person's level of spiritual devlopment simply by watching how much they give.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Spiritual, Yoga

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• If you are fortunate enough to meet such a being then you will really learn selfless giving. You'll see that every second, every moment of their awareness is directed towards others.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Yoga, Selfless Giving

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• Selfliss giving rounds the edges in spiritual practice. Many people can meditate very well but they're still very egotistical.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Spiritual, Yoga

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• Who cares for your bhakti and mukti? Who cares what your scriptures say? I will go into a thousand hells cheerfully if I can rouse my countrymen, immersed in tamas, to stand on their own feet and be men inspired with the spirit of karma-yoga. I am a follower only of he or she who serves and helps others without caring for his own bhakti and mukti!

  Swami Vivekananda

  Karma, Yoga, Caring

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