Karma Yoga Quotes - Page 3

• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Selfless giving is being nice and there are times we don't want to be.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Nice, Yoga

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• Selfless giving is measured by how good you feel. Self giving should be obvious.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Yoga, Self

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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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• 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.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Yoga, House

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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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• 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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• Selfless giving doesn't mean you let people walk all over you. You get a lot of footprints on your face that way.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Yoga, Mean

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• Selfless giving does not imply superiority. Selfless giving is about love.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Yoga, Selfless Giving

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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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• If you burn yourself out in two years of intense selfless giving, what good is that if you could have given 20 years? Set yourself up well. Get the things you want - God exists in the material and in the spiritual.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Spiritual, Yoga

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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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• Selfless giving does not imply giving everything up - it's simply having a good time.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Yoga, Selfless Giving

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• The more talented the opponent, the luckier you are. You have draw a great deal of strength from your being.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Yoga, Opponents

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• Krishna suprises Arjuna. He says go fight, go kill. Do this because it's only play money. You can't kill your friends any more than they can kill you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Yoga, Fighting

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• When you're going though a difficult time, forget about yourself for a while. Go do something for someone else. This is the fastest way to pull yourself out of a negative state.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Yoga, Way

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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

  Karma, Sorry, Yoga

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• Kirshna says its better to be a winner than a loser. It runs counter to what a lot of people whould think, because they have watered down, quasi-religious ideas about that which creates in enlightenment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Running, Religious

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