Quotes & Sayings About Karma Yoga

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

Each day try and go through the day with an attitude of being a servant to the world. You'll benefit the most - and the way will be joyous. — Frederick Lenz

Some persons choose, rather than stay in immortal bliss all the time, to come back for others. — Frederick Lenz

Selfless giving is like putting on make-up. We're covering up a part of ourselves thats not very aware. The thing is when we take the make up off, the selflish part leaves us. We are freeer, clearer. — Frederick Lenz

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

Now is wanted intense Karma-Yoga with unbounded courage and indomitable strength in the heart. Then only will the people of the country be roused. — Swami Vivekananda

Yoga means we take responsibility for the tasks in our life. Whatever we are supposed to have karmically, life gives us. The question is: how do we handle it? — Frederick Lenz

A lot of the book [The Yoga of Max's Discontent] is about karma and rebirth. Things like that are very attuned to my life as an Indian, but when I approach it from a perspective of a Westerner, then I have a skeptical, yet kind of novice view on it. I think that choice really liberated the story to be its own story. A lot of the conclusions that Max reaches on his own are not mine at all. So, I think that allowed the story to take on its own momentum, to have its own propulsive force. — Karan Bajaj

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

The more talented the opponent, the luckier you are. You have draw a great deal of strength from your being. — Frederick Lenz

One thing I have seen, regardless of the method of aprehenesion of the dimensional plane one is in, is self-giving and how effective it is. — Frederick Lenz

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

You suffer because you try to fulfill yourself. You think of yourself in a limited way. — Frederick Lenz

Feeling "comfortable" is the short path to annihilation. — Frederick Lenz

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

Giving my life to you may mean leading a very ordinary life or it may mean leading an extraordinary life. It may mean having a family and a career or it may mean going beyond all that to just work for others. It's hard to say. Rather than making a decision myself, I'm going to give my life to you, to do with as you will, because I know that you are my self, you are my very being. — Frederick Lenz

Krishna suprises Arjuna. He says go fight, go kill. Do this because it's only play money. You can't kill your friends any more than they can kill you. — Frederick Lenz

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

Your spiritual journey and your spiritual welfare are really dependent on two primary factors: One, your ability to meditate and two, your ability to give of yourself. — Frederick Lenz

The Love factor makes anything hallowed, and an action is no exception. Doing things with love makes the work sacred. — Banani Ray

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

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

Suddenly they have to face each other down - you've got to kill your friends. — Frederick Lenz

We preceive that God is in all of those we give to. — Frederick Lenz

When you practice selfless giving, you're in balance and harmony with everything. — Frederick Lenz

When you do something for someone else, it's for you. When you do something for yourself, it's for someone else. — Frederick Lenz

Life itself is selfless giving. We're not given this life just for own amusement and pleasures. — Frederick Lenz

If a bird is used to flying and you put in a a cage, it won't be a happy bird; It wants to fly; that's its nature. Your nature is infinite awareness. — Frederick Lenz

When this life ends, I will be absorbed back into you. I have come forth from you . You are all good and you know all that there is. So please act in me and through me at every moment and every second. Let me be but an extension of your being. Teach me how to live and love selflessly, at all times. — Frederick Lenz

The best mantrum is selfless giving beause as you repeat it again and again, you change. — Frederick Lenz

Strengthen your heart muscles by removing the sufferings of others. — Amit Ray

In the Bhagavad Gita, one of the oldest and most beautiful spiritual teachings in existence, nonattachment to the fruit of your action is called Karma Yoga. It is described as the path of consecrated action. — Eckhart Tolle

If you are not happier every day, if you don't see a progression of development, then you are certainly not practicing yoga or Buddhism and therefore you cannot be amassing any positive karma. — Frederick Lenz

Selfless giving involves time. It takes a bit of time to care and share yourself with the universe. — Frederick Lenz

The most giving souls are those who give when they don't have to give, who could just walk away from this world and its suffering and merge with eternal existence and bliss forever. — Frederick Lenz

There are persons who elected to give their existence to God. They are happy, happy in their self-giving. — Frederick Lenz

When you do something "selflish" you'll feel constricted and restricted. You won't be happy. — Frederick Lenz

Granted, in order to give selflessly, one often starts giving selfishly. As Tiresias said to Odysseus: "Honey ... you don't get through hell in a hurry" — Frederick Lenz

Be kind, be loving, be generous. Give of yourself, give of your time and you'll be free. It's the oldest secret, the one thats most often forgotten - and that is to have fun through giving. — Frederick Lenz

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

Who cares for your bhakti and mukti? Who cares what your scriptures say? I will go into a thousand hells cheerfully if I can rouse my countrymen, immersed in tamas, to stand on their own feet and be men inspired with the spirit of karma-yoga. I am a follower only of he or she who serves and helps others without caring for his own bhakti and mukti! — Swami Vivekananda

We could be unhappy and discouraged for ourselves, but we're trying to be in a high vibratory state so we can be of service to others. — Frederick Lenz

Through yoga practice you can change the course of your life by purifying your karma. But to do that you must have an idea of where you've been and where you want to go. — Sharon Gannon

Arjuna, who is the fearless waririor in the story is a very wordly indvidual, we assume with high past lives. — Frederick Lenz

So when we wake from the ignorance of this world, the dream of existence, all of the experiences that we have ever had fall away. The ideas of life and death, of rebirth, of reincarnation, karma, God, truth, knowledge - all these things fall away. — Frederick Lenz

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

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

Whenever you engage in a selfless action that contributes to the welfare of others, this will create a vibratory pattern that will lead you into higher states of mind. — Frederick Lenz

You can only be really happy when you become what you really are. — Frederick Lenz

Seeds of past karma cannot germinate if they are roasted in the fires of divine wisdom. — Paramahansa Yogananda

Everyone is part of you. — Frederick Lenz

You have no fixed self. This is only an illusion that causes you to feel pain and suffering. — Frederick Lenz

Whenever we do something for someone else, we affirm that we are not simply in it for ourselves, that our self is someone else, is everyone else. — Frederick Lenz

Have the courage to be selfless in a world were such qualities are not admired. Dare to be differnt. Be crazy! — Frederick Lenz

Think of a star. A star burns its very substance to give light to others. You need to be like a star. — Frederick Lenz

Eternity is selfless giving. Eternity sends forth all of the worlds, the very fabric of existence. — Frederick Lenz

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

You don't need a special task. Every task is special. — Frederick Lenz

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

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

In the big picture we are all eternal. — Frederick Lenz

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

It's a civil war, and Arjuna knows a lot of people who are on the opposite side of the battlefield - they've been his friends. — Frederick Lenz

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

The soldier is willing to give their life, perhaps for someone they never even met in their country. That's a very high love. — Frederick Lenz

The secret to enlightenment is kindness and selfless giving. Without that, it's just words, isn't it? — Frederick Lenz

Yoga teaches us that we can have whatever we may want in life if we are willing to provide it for others first. — Sharon Gannon

You could sit around and feel sorry for yourself or you can go out and do things for others. — Frederick Lenz

You can tell a person's level of spiritual devlopment simply by watching how much they give. — Frederick Lenz

Enlightenment is represented by Sri Krishna, who is said to be an avatar. — Frederick Lenz

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

We hide in relationships. We hide in material possessions. We hide in ambitions, secret desires, hates, frustrations, jealousy, self-ptiy, in our insecurity - and more than anything our vanity and our egotism. — Frederick Lenz

It's better to do something, even if you're attached to the results. — Frederick Lenz

Everybody out there is just doing things for themesleves. So if you don't do that you've got to be crazy ... crazy about selfless giving! — Frederick Lenz

Eternity does nothing but give. — Frederick Lenz

The reason why we're not happy is because we believe consciously and subconsciously that we're separate from god, eternal awareness. — Frederick Lenz

Finally, we see that there is no one and nothing but God. — Frederick Lenz

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

We're not aware of the joy of our own immortality. When we give to someone else it opens a doorway and gives us the vision to see those we give to are God. As we see this in others, suddenly we see it within ourselves. — Frederick Lenz

There is the path of karma, selfless action, the path of love and devotion, the path of training the mind and the path of Yoga, mantra and tantra this is what the various saints advocated. — Mata Amritanandamayi

I don't feel the need for religion. But I went on a yoga retreat last year and I do believe slightly in the karma thing and just being good and true unto yourself. And I slightly believe that you can attract good and bad to you. — Imelda Staunton

Eternity, I don't know what's right or wrong, good or bad. I may be doing what's right or I may be deceiving myself. So instead, what I'm going to do is give my life to you. — Frederick Lenz

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

Then you will pick yourself up, no matter how tired you are, and go forward again and again and again, until you've reached liberation. — Frederick Lenz

It's a long journey and along the journey you'll get tired. But if, when you're very, very tired and you're about to give up and you think: — Frederick Lenz

Arjuna is a warrior of great renown, says he won't fight. He tells Krishna: I can't fight because I love these people. It's immoral. It's unjust. There's no winning. — Frederick Lenz

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

In the soldier we see the love of country. When you are willing to go onto a battlefield and give your life to defend an ideal ... knowing that you may not live through day. — Frederick Lenz

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

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

Meditation is the ultimate selfless act, because when you meditate you are sacrificing your puny personality for the universal reality. — Frederick Lenz

We define a world. We build a house, then after building the house we enter into it and we never leave it. — Frederick Lenz

There's always someone to help, there's always some way in which you can perfect yourself through service to others. — Frederick Lenz

Krishna says, fight. He says, go out in the battlefield and kill those people whom it's your job to kill. — Frederick Lenz

If we think of Albert Schweitzer, Ghandi, Lincoln, we feel that the people who were the most outstanding in the this world are those who have given the most of themselves. — Frederick Lenz

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

The difficult opponent is the best. — Frederick Lenz

Jnana, bhakti, yoga and karma - these are the four paths which lead to spiritual freedom. One must follow the path for which one is best suited. But in this age, special stress should be laid on karma yoga. — Swami Vivekananda

It is much more likely that you will attain liberation if you want liberation for others, than just for yourself. — Frederick Lenz

When you know who you truly are, you can live more freely and in tune with your karma. — Alan Finger