Yoga Quotes - Page 15

• The art of spirituality is learning to be happy in any condition and in any circumstance. This is the art of love.

  Frederick Lenz

  Art, Spirituality, Circumstances

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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 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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• Everything is a formation or an aggregate of love.

  Frederick Lenz

  Bhakti Yoga, Formation

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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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• 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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• The yoga of love is the yoga of acceptance. Love teaches us that which is most important is self-acceptance.

  Frederick Lenz

  Acceptance, Love Is, Self

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• We begin by loving and accepting ourselves.

  Frederick Lenz

  Accepting, Bhakti Yoga

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• If you burn yourself out in two years of intense selfless giving, what good is that if you could have given 20 years? Set yourself up well. Get the things you want - God exists in the material and in the spiritual.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Spiritual, Two

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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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• If, when you give to someone you think you're better than they are because your practing selfless giving, you're not loving.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Thinking, Selfless Giving

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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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• Yoga means to bind back, unite. To bring the body and the soul together. For this reason the practice of yoga is a holy endeavor and the teaching of it to our people a very high calling.

  Alice Walker

  Teaching, Mean, Practice

  Alice Walker (2007). “We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting for: Inner Light in a Time of Darkness”, p.240, The New Press

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• He is the real Guru Who can reveal the form of the formless before your eyes; who teaches the simple path, without rites or ceremonies; Who does not make you close your doors, and hold your breath, and renounce the world; Who makes you perceive the Supreme Spirit whenever the mind attaches itself; Who teaches you to be still in the midst of all your activities. Fearless, always immersed in bliss, he keeps the spirit of yoga in the midst of enjoyments.

  Kabir

  Real, Eye, Simple

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• Nowadays, the practice of yoga stops with just asanas. Very few even attempt dharana and dhyana (deeper meditation) with seriousness. There is a need to search once more and reestablish the practice and value of yoga in modern times.

  Tirumalai Krishnamacharya

  Practice, Meditation, Needs

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