Karma Yoga Quotes - Page 2

• The soldier is willing to give their life, perhaps for someone they never even met in their country. That's a very high love.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Country, Yoga

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• Yoga means we take responsibility for the tasks in our life. Whatever we are supposed to have karmically, life gives us. The question is: how do we handle it?

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  Karma, Yoga, Mean

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• Very often people give to others to control them and dominant them.

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  Karma, Yoga, People

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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.

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  Karma, Yoga, Self

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• There's always someone to help, there's always some way in which you can perfect yourself through service to others.

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  Karma, Yoga, Perfect

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• Selfless giving means forgeting about yourself. It means letting go and doing something crazy.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Letting Go, Crazy

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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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• The short way to happiness is through kindness and sensitivity.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Kindness, 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.

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  Karma, Yoga, Self

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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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• It is much more likely that you will attain liberation if you want liberation for others, than just for yourself.

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  Karma, Yoga, Want

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• Well, yes, I could give up for myself but no, there are others whom I will be able to help and they're waiting for me and if I don't complete my task, if I don't do this perfectly, then what about them? They'll suffer.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Giving Up, Yoga

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• Then you will pick yourself up, no matter how tired you are, and go forward again and again and again, until you've reached liberation.

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  Karma, Yoga, Tired

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

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  Karma, Yoga, House

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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.

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  Beautiful, Karma, Yoga

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

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Wise, Fun

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• Selfless giving is a choice. The primary choice we make is not what to give, how to give, where to give. What we are trying to do is become perfect givers.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Yoga, Selfless Giving

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• The parent gives the child a new car, money. They know the child wants these things and has to do what they want; otherwise, they withdraw the favors - manipulation, domination, no happiness, psychic sickness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Children, Yoga

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