Karma Quotes - Page 17

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

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Feels, Karma 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

  Yoga, Names, Abuse

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• If your life is based around your being comfortable, you're not very comfortable. You suffer quite a bit - becuase in the realm of the senses there is not only pleasure, but there is pain.

  Frederick Lenz

  Pain, Yoga, Suffering

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• The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Fathers Day, Soul, Important

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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

  Yoga, Mean, Self

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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

  Yoga, Selfless, Attention

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• What motivates someone who's become wealthy to go out and work in the ghetto with those who are poor? What motivates one who has perfect health to go and work with the sick? If you understand - then you understand the root and cause of all existence.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Ghetto, Roots

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• Every soul... comes into the world strengthened by the victories or weakened by the defeats of its' previous life. Its' place in this world as a vessel appointed to honor or dishonor, is determined by its' previous merits or demerits. Its' work in this world determines its' place in the world which is to follow this.

  Origen

  Soul, Honor, Victory

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• No doubt, God alone has become all these objects, animate and inanimate, but in the relative world all beings act and suffer according to their past Karma and innate tendencies.

  Sarada Devi

  Past, Doubt, Suffering

  "Sri Sarada Devi, the Holy Mother; Life and Conversations" by Swami Tapasyananda, Swami Nikhilananda, (p. 361), 2004.

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• Dependent Origination is the teaching (that life) is not the mere play of blind chance, but has an existence that is dependent upon conditions. That, precisely with the removal of these conditions, those things that have arisen in dependence upon them-thus also all suffering-must perforce disappear and cease to be.

  Gautama Buddha

  Teaching, Play, Suffering

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• Surely if living creatures saw the results of all their evil deeds, they would turn away from them in disgust. But selfhood blinds them, and they cling to their obnoxious desires. They crave pleasure for themselves and they cause pain to others; when death destroys their individuality, they find no peace; their thirst for existence abides and their selfhood reappears in new births. Thus they continue to move in the coil and can find no escape from the hell of their own making.

  Gautama Buddha

  Pain, Moving, Evil

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• For, owners of their deeds (karma) are the beings, heirs of their deeds; their deeds are the womb from which they sprang; with their deeds they are bound up; their deeds are their refuge. Whatever deeds they do-good or evil-of such they will be the heirs. And wherever the beings spring into existence, there their deeds will ripen; and wherever their deeds ripen, there they will earn the fruits of those deeds, be it in this life, or be it in the next life, or be it in any other future life.

  Gautama Buddha

  Spring, Evil, Deeds

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• Selfless giving changes our concept of our identity. When we give to others our unselfishness removes the spot of "self" that stained our awareness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Self, Giving

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• We preceive that God is in all of those we give to.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Giving, Karma Yoga

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• Arjuna is a warrior of great renown, says he won't fight. He tells Krishna: I can't fight because I love these people. It's immoral. It's unjust. There's no winning.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Fighting, Warrior

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• Suddenly they have to face each other down - you've got to kill your friends.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Faces, Karma Yoga

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• We are inspired by the God that we see in others and suddenly we find ourselves changing. We find ourselves giving more. We find that our lives become rather amazingly beautiful.

  Frederick Lenz

  Beautiful, Yoga, Giving

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• It's a civil war, and Arjuna knows a lot of people who are on the opposite side of the battlefield - they've been his friends.

  Frederick Lenz

  War, Yoga, Opposites

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• One day after many, many lifetimes, we get wise. We decide that the fun in life is to give.

  Frederick Lenz

  Wise, Fun, Yoga

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• See karma, make dharma

  Gary Gach

  Life, Dharma

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• You could sit around and feel sorry for yourself or you can go out and do things for others.

  Frederick Lenz

  Sorry, Yoga, Feels

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• If your're not having a very good time with your life, its because you haven't done much for others. You may have done many things but you havent done much for those around you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, May, Done

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• We see the one light, the one unified reality that we see in others, is the same reality that is within ourselves. We are one with all of existence.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Reality, Light

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• In the Bhagavad-Gita, a dialogue ensues in the middle of a battlefield, symbolizing the battlefield of life which we are fighting through our illusions.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Fighting, Gita

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• The best mantrum is selfless giving beause as you repeat it again and again, you change.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Selfless Giving, Again And Again

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