Karma Quotes - Page 15

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

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, People, Giving

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

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Selfless Giving, Doe

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• You could go outside today and have a glum face, or you could put a smile on your face and go out into the world, even though you don't feel like it - that's selfless giving!

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Selfless Giving, Today

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• If you are unhappy - be that way in your bedroom - but whenever you come out into the world, in real selfless giving we push all of that aside and we smile, love and give to others.

  Frederick Lenz

  Real, Yoga, Selfless Giving

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• Be kind; you're only here for a while. No sense of superiority, just do things for others. It's really fun.

  Frederick Lenz

  Fun, Yoga, Be Kind

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• As you pass through this life, have you done all that you really wish to for others?

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Wish, Done

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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

  Running, Religious, Yoga

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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

  Yoga, Opponents, Deals

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• The difficult opponent is the best.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Opponents, Difficult

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• Kirshna's message is eternal - fight!

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Fighting, Messages

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• The yoga of selfless giving is easy for anyone to practice. The key is detachment. The spirit is unattachment to results.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Selfless Giving, Practice

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• If our best efforts come to nothing often enough, we need consolation, and thoughts of unfolding, infinite destiny, or karma , are sometimes consoling.

  Simon Blackburn

  Destiny, Best Effort, Needs

  Simon Blackburn (1999). “Think: A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy”, p.81, Oxford University Press

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• It is the interplay between our experience and how we respond to it that makes karma devastating or helpfully invigorating.

  Sivaya Subramuniyaswami

  Invigorating, Discernment

  Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami (2003). “Dancing with Siva: Hinduism's Contemporary Catechism”, p.38, Himalayan Academy Publications

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• To the worldy man Karma is a stern Nemesis, to the spiritual man Karma unfolds itself in harmony with his highest aspirations.

  William Quan Judge

  Spiritual, Men, Harmony

  William Quan Judge (1975). “Echoes of the Orient: The Writings of William Quan Judge”

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• If I used justice, you'd all be dead. The karma that you throw at me when you don't like me - if I just let it come back, you'd all be destroyed in no time.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Justice, Rama

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• How do you become enlightened? I don't know: Luck, karma, skill, friends in high places, friends in low places.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Skills, Luck

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• It's considered very, very bad karma, if I can cut to the chase, to take power from a teacher and not use it for something very positive.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Buddhist, Buddhism

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• Selfless giving presupposes something - that there is a lumunious reality.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Reality, Selfless Giving

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• We have two choices in life: One is to fulfill ourselves. The other is to take the time and energy that we would utilize in fulfilling ourselves and use it to make others happy.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Make Others Happy, Two

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• You suffer because you try to fulfill yourself. You think of yourself in a limited way.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Thinking, Suffering

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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

  Yoga, Sky, Looks

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• We are where centuries only count as seconds, and after a thousand lives, our eyes begin to open.

  Eugene O'Neill

  Eye, Century, Thousand

  Eugene O'Neill (1951). “Plays: "Anna Christie." Beyond the horizon. The Emperor Jones. The hairy ape. The great god Brown. The straw. Dynamo. Days without end. The iceman cometh”

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• I believe ... that the soul of man is immortal and will be treated with justice in another life, respecting its conduct in this.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Believe, Men, Justice

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the life and writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”, p.131, Printed for H. Colborn

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• Is there Chance? No. There is karma. Karma causes all things to happen. There is only one thing karma cannot decide, and that is how far you will evolve in this lifetime.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Science, Causes

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• Selflessness implies fun. Its fun to be free. Freedom is inner stillness and not being haunted by your desires, your fears, your aggressive tendencies ... it's being cool.

  Frederick Lenz

  Fun, Yoga, Desire

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