Yoga Quotes - Page 10

• 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

  Karma, Fun, Desire

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• Love is beginningless and endless ecstasy. It is an unfathomable mystery. It is the study of our lives.

  Frederick Lenz

  Love Is, Study, Mystery

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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, Psychics

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• Love is the strongest force in the universe

  Frederick Lenz

  Love Is, Force, Hiding Place

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• Love is, in its essence, a free, formless strand of luminosity.

  Frederick Lenz

  Love Is, Essence, Strands

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• I have no agenda. I know what I love to do and that's my religion. That's what I recommend to everybody. I did not invent that very ancient idea: "Do what you love and you will never work in your life." It's the pure truth. I think it's also the goal of human existence to accumulate as much of that feeling as possible. You can find that concept in anywhere from yoga to Bible.

  Eugene Hutz

  Thinking, Goal, Feelings

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• Most people suffer in love because of attachment. Attachment means we're interested in a net return on our investment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mean, Love Is, Attachment

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• The ego is a false perception of self. It's an idea, a transitory identity that we've picked up.

  Frederick Lenz

  Self, Ideas, Ego

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• Do something nice for somebody. Do something nice for God. Do something nice for the earth - and don't expect anything in return or you will suffer.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Nice, Suffering

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

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, People, Giving

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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, Selfless Giving, Perfect

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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, Mean, Selfless Giving

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• Beyond matter is spirit and in spirit there is nothing but love.

  Frederick Lenz

  Matter, Spirit, Bhakti Yoga

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• If we examine the essence of existence, we'll find that the essence is love. There really is nothing that isn't love.

  Frederick Lenz

  Essence, Existence, Ifs

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• Love knits families together, friends, lovers, societies, nations and perhaps oneday a world.

  Frederick Lenz

  Together, World, Lovers

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• In the most advanced state of love we don't love for any reason or purpose. We don't even direct our love necessarily to an object.

  Frederick Lenz

  Purpose, Our Love, Reason

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• This kind of love doesn't work very well, it destorys the nature of love.

  Frederick Lenz

  Kind, Wells, Bhakti Yoga

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• Love does not seek to please itself, but offers itself and its life to others.

  Frederick Lenz

  Doe, Please, Offers

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• We learn that those around us are an extension of ourselves, both animate and inanimate. All things have a life and form. We learn to love them all.

  Frederick Lenz

  Form, All Things, Extensions

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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

  Karma, Selfless Giving, Practice

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• Selfless giving is love in action. Initially you will feel that you should help in a certain way, with a certain result. Do your best, but don't be concerned with results; do it for the infinite.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Compassion, Selfless Giving

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• Self-giving means that we have to understand the nature of giving. When most people give, they give expecting a return on their investment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Mean, 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, Giving, Ifs

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• The ego is not harmonious with happiness and spiritual development. In the process of spiritual transformation we refine it. In the fire of love we melt the ego down.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Fire, Ego

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• In real self-giving we are inspired. Whether they acknowledge us or not is not important.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Real, Self

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