Yoga Quotes - Page 11

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

  Frederick Lenz

  Matter, Spirit, Bhakti Yoga

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• Everything is a formation or an aggregate of love.

  Frederick Lenz

  Bhakti Yoga, Formation

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• We begin by loving and accepting ourselves.

  Frederick Lenz

  Accepting, Bhakti Yoga

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

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, People, Giving

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• If we give purely, it opens up a doorway in our heart and it gives us the vision to see that those we give to are God.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Heart, Giving

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

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Selfless Giving, Doe

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• The key to selfless giving is that you feel good when you do it and you feel good afterwards.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Keys, Selfless Giving

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

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Self, Giving

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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, Selfless Giving

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• When we are aligned, everything can flow, and life and yoga becomes effortless.

  Rebecca Hall

  Flow, Effortless

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• We can't allow ouselves to be depresses or discouraged. There are people who depend on us, things to accomplish. We only have a little bit of time in this world before death swallows us up.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Depressing, People

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• We must bring light to as many people as possible. Who has time to indulge in self-pity or guilt? In advanced self-giving you have no time for this. You just push these emotions out.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Indulge In, Light

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• Ninety percent of what most yoga teachers do is teach asana practice. While asana discharges stress and so forth, it was never intended to be a standalone practice. The true intent of yoga is personal transformation. What we get out of the privilege of teaching prisoners is the opportunity to focus on our own personal development. You can be of service, and, while helping others transform their lives, you have the deeper opportunity to transform your own. What we teach in prison is how we live our lives.

  James Fox

  Teacher, Stress, Teaching

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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

  Karma, Selfless Giving, Today

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• By means of personal experimentation and observation, we can discover certain simple and universal truths. The mind moves the body, and the body follows the mind. Logically then, negative thought patterns harm not only the mind but also the body. What we actually do builds up to affect the subconscious mind and in turn affects the conscious mind and all reactions.

  H. E Davey

  Moving, Mean, Simple

  "Japanese Yoga: The Way of Dynamic Meditation". Book by H. E. Davey, 2001.

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

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Nice, Selfless Giving

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