Karma Yoga Quotes - Page 4

• 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.

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  Karma, Pain, 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.

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  Karma, Believe, 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.

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

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  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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• Feeling "comfortable" is the short path to annihilation.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Yoga, Feelings

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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.

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  Karma, Pain, Yoga

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

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  Karma, Yoga, Giving

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• Then we see that the same God is within ourselves.

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  Karma, Yoga

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• Finally, we see that there is no one and nothing but God.

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  Karma, Yoga

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• Selfless giving reminds us that there is an eternally present spirit in all of us, that when revealed, liberates us from both the transitory and the eternal - both of which ultimatly can be attachments.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Yoga, Selfless Giving

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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.

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  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.

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  Karma, Running, Yoga

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• Karma simply means that whatever type of energy you project, or you allow to pass through your being, you will become for a period of time.

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  Karma, Mean, Energy

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• So, those who hate, those who are violent in nature, live in a world of hate and fear and violence inside themselves, inside their minds, inside their awareness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Hate, Mind

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• Those who love and who have a sense of purity live in a very luminous band of awareness.

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  Karma, Band, Awareness

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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.

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  Karma, Mind, Unhappy

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• Selfless actions create a higher karma, which brings you into higher states of mind. When you are in higher states of mind you will see things that you never saw before.

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  Karma, Mind, Selfless

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• A saint is someone who has been very selfless and, over a period of lifetimes, generated a tremendous amount of good karma, which has caused them to enter into very lovely states of mind.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Mind, Lovely

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• The secret to enlightenment is kindness and selfless giving. Without that, it's just words, isn't it?

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  Karma, Kindness, Yoga

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• Selfless giving is the art of living.

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  Karma, Art, Yoga

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• This is what Krishna says in the Bhagavad-Gita - Karma Yoga. If you can't avoid action, you might as well act.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Yoga, Gita

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