Karma Quotes - Page 21

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

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Feelings, Path

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

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Karma Yoga

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

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Karma Yoga

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• Everyone is part of you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Karma Yoga

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• When you do something for someone else, it's for you. When you do something for yourself, it's for someone else.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Karma Yoga

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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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• Eternity gives life to all and sustains all, transforms all on the wheel of dharma - until all attain perfection.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Perfection, Giving

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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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• You can only be really happy when you become what you really are.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Really Happy, Karma Yoga

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• Having a tough time, things aren't working out no matter what you try and do? That's because you are spending your whole life just doing things for yourself. That's a very limited view of your being.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Views, Work Out

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The basic idea of karma is not punishment. Karma presents the opportunity for development; to make use of opportunities that were not taken advantage of, to fill in gaps of ignorance, to enlarge understanding through experience, to do what should be done.

  Seth

  Taken, Ignorance, Opportunity

  "The Early Sessions: Sessions 1-42 : 11/26/63-4/8/64" by Seth, Jane Roberts, Robert F. Butts, The Early Sessions: Book 8, Session 388, (p. 158), 1997.

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• Who hath a prospect of the different state of perfect happiness or misery that attends all men after this life, depending on their behavior, the measures of good and evil that govern his choice are mightily changed.

  John Locke

  Men, Evil, Perfect

  John Locke (1813). “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding”, p.250

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• Yes, people are busy every day creating new karma for themselves. The reason is they overreact to every slight... Grace and respect are two signs of a mature spiritual individual, whatever his religion or belief.

  Harold Klemp

  Spiritual, Two, Creating

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• Too often in the west we fail to realize that even in eastern disciplines the spiritual life is not meant as an escape from the worldly life. There is karma to be fulfilled on earth, within the dharma of necessity.

  James Hillman

  Spiritual, Discipline, Worldly Life

  Gopi Krishna, James Hillman (1967). “Kundalini: The Evolutionary Energy in Man”

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• The universal law of karma ... is that of action and reaction, cause and effect, sowing and reaping. In the course of natural righteousness, man, by his thoughts and actions, becomes the arbiter of his destiny.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Destiny, Men, Law

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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

  Giving Up, Yoga, Waiting

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