Even in the world, the yogi who faithfully discharges his responsibilities, without personal motive or attachment, treads the sure path of enlightenment. — Mahavatar Babaji
It is only work that is done as freewill offering to humanity and to nature that does not bring with it any binding attachment. — Swami Vivekananda
Selfless service to mankind makes you free in the world of mortals. — Sivaya Subramuniyaswami
Karma means that all actions have consequences. Grace means that in a moment of atonement -taking responsibility, making amends, asking for forgiveness - all karma is burned. — Marianne Williamson
Always do good to others. Be selfless. Mentally remove everything and be free. This is divine life. This is the direct way to Moksha or salvation. — Sivananda
Always do good to others. Be selfless. Mentally remove everything and be free. This is divine life. This is the direct way to Moksha or salvation. — Swami Sivananda
Devotion to duty is the highest form of worship of God. — Swami Vivekananda
Though the names 'karma', 'yoga' and 'sannyasa' are different, the truth at the heart of both is the same. — Vinoba Bhave
Through selfless work, love of God grows in heart. — Ramakrishna
Karma is the root cause of success and failure in every aspect of life. — Zhi Gang Sha
One has to reap the fruits of his karma. The law of karma is inevitable and is accepted by all the great philosophies of the world: 'As you sow, so shall you reap.' — Rama Swami
Selfless service alone gives the needed strength and courage to awaken the sleeping humanity in one's heart. — Sai Baba
The Man who works for others, without any selfish motive, really does good to himself. — Ramakrishna
Be kind to all beings, this is more meritorious than bathing at the sixty-eight sacred shrines of pilgrimage and donating money. — Guru Nanak
We pay Karma not only for the evil we do but also for the good left undone, being able to do it. — Samael Aun Weor
Short Karma Yoga Quotes
How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours. — Wayne Dyer
Do everything with a mind that lets go. Do not expect praise or reward. — Achaan Chah
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. — Mahatma Gandhi
To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward. — Ramakrishna
Doing good to others is the # one great Universal Religion — Swami Vivekananda
The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. — Billy Graham
Yoga is the art and science of living. — Indra Devi
As long as karma exists, the world changes. There will always be karma to be taken care of. — Nina Hagen
Karma Yoga Image Quotes
Everything you need, you courage, strength, compassion and love; everything you need is already within you.
Krishna Karma Yoga Quotes
Krishna says, fight. He says, go out in the battlefield and kill those people whom it's your job to kill. — Frederick Lenz
The secret of karma yoga which is to perform actions without any fruitive desires is taught by Lord Krishna in the Bhagavad-Gita. — Swami Vivekananda
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
How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.
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
Enlightenment is represented by Sri Krishna, who is said to be an avatar. — Frederick Lenz
This is what Krishna says in the Bhagavad-Gita - Karma Yoga. If you can't avoid action, you might as well act. — Frederick Lenz
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality. — Dalai Lama
Everybody comes from the same source. If you hate another human being, you're hating part of yourself. — Elvis Presley
How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.
There's a natural law of karma that vindictive people, who go out of their way to hurt others, will end up broke and alone. — Sylvester Stallone
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about. — Wendy Mass
Karma is the universal law of cause and effect. You reap what you sow. You get what you earn. You are what you eat. If you give love, you get love. Revenge returns itself upon the avenger. — Mary Browne
A little girl seeks revenge. A woman moves on whole karma does her dirty work.
You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life. — Steve Jobs
Though we can't always see it at the time, if we look upon events with some perspective, we see things always happen for our best interests. We are always being guided in a way better than we know ourselves. — Swami Satchidananda
Realize that everything connects to everything else. — Leonardo da Vinci
If you're really a mean person you're going to come back as a fly and eat poop. — Kurt Cobain
Bhakti Yoga Quotes
Devotion (Bhakti) includes Sentimental Devotion (Bhav Bhakti) and Devotion through action (Kruti Bhakti). — Pandurang Shastri Athavale
Those who are lacking in bhakti (devotion), lacking in faith, are ill qualified to interpret the scriptures. — Mahatma Gandhi
The purpose of is to stop the misery before it comes.
I'm a Bhakti, meaning I practice devotional yoga and the heart and love, so I say to people, start with your ego and go down to your heart. — Ram Dass
Bhakti yoga isn't something you join, it's love. It means falling in love. — Krishna Das
The path of bhakti, karma and love as expounded in the Gita leaves no room for the despising of man by man. — Mahatma Gandhi
Yoga doesn't take time, It gives time.
Bhakti is expressed through our service attitude. — Radhanath Swami
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
Love is beginningless and endless ecstasy. It is an unfathomable mystery. It is the study of our lives. — Frederick Lenz
Enjoy being with yourself, hanging out with yourself, doing things by yourself. — Frederick Lenz
Yoga Quotes
If you want to be sad, no one in the world can make you happy. But if you make up your mind to be happy, no one and nothing on earth can take that happiness from you. — Paramahansa Yogananda
Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace. — Dalai Lama
Anyone can practice. Young man can practice. Old man can practice. Very old man can practice. Man who is sick, he can practice. Man who doesn't have strength can practice. Except lazy people; lazy people can't practice Ashtanga yoga. — K. Pattabhi Jois
You are only as young as your spine is flexible. — Joseph Pilates
Yoga is for internal cleansing, not external exercising. Yoga means true self-knowledge. — K. Pattabhi Jois
You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body. — C. S. Lewis
When you think everything is someone else's fault, you will suffer a lot. When you realize that everything springs only from yourself, you will learn both peace and joy. — Dalai Lama
If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it? — Dogen
The full ashtanga system practiced with devotion leads to freedom within one's heart. — K. Pattabhi Jois
Being a seeker means no matter what the Vedas said, what Krishna or Shiva said, you have to know the truth in your own experience. — Jaggi Vasudev
Yoga Peace Quotes
Ego says, "Once everything falls into place, I'll feel peace". Spirit says, "Find your peace, and then everything will fall into place". — Marianne Williamson
If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher. — Pema Chodron
In the practice of Yoga one can emphasize the body, the mind or the self and hence the effort can never be fruitless. — Tirumalai Krishnamacharya
Yoga cultivates Peace of Body. Meditation cultivates Peace of Mind. — Naval Ravikant
The success of Yoga does not lie in the ability to perform postures but in how it positively changes the way we live our life and our relationships. — T. K. V. Desikachar
Why do we need money beyond a point? If we are free of ill health, enmity, and debt, is that not enough? Too much money only leads to less peace. — Tirumalai Krishnamacharya
Snowflakes, leaves, humans, plants, raindrops, stars, molecules, microscopic entities all come in communities. The singular cannot in reality exist. — Paula Gunn Allen
A lot of exercise is mindless; you can have music or the radio on and not be aware. But if you're aware in anything you do - and it doesn't have to be yoga - it changes you. Being present changes you. — Mariel Hemingway
Yoga believes in transforming the individual before transforming the world. Whatever change we want to happen outside should happen within. If you walk in peace and express that peace in your very life, others will see you and learn something. — Swami Satchidananda
Nothing can steal happiness, peace, away from you: if anyone does make you angry, you are the loser; if someone can allow you to lose peace, you are the loser. — Bikram Choudhury
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
Have only love in your heart for others. The more you see the good in them, the more you will establish good in yourself. — Paramahansa Yogananda
The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in. — B.K.S. Iyengar
Yoga is possible for anybody who really wants it. Yoga is universal.... But don't approach yoga with a business mind looking for worldly gain. — K. Pattabhi Jois
Move, but don't move the way fear makes you move. — Rumi
When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes. Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way. — Paulo Coelho
The man who sat on the ground in his tipi meditating on life and its meaning, accepting the kinship of all creatures and acknowledging unity with the universe of things, was infusing into his being the true essence of civilization. — Luther Standing Bear
The mind is responsible for the feelings of pleasure and pain. Control of the mind is the highest Yoga. — Sivananda
In truth, it matters less what we do in practice than how we do it and why we do it. The same posture, the same sequence, the same meditation with a different intention takes on an entirely new meaning and will have entirely different outcomes. — Donna Farhi
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
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
Selfless giving reminds us that there is an eternally present spirit in all of us, that when revealed, liberates us from both the transitory and the eternal - both of which ultimatly can be attachments. — Frederick Lenz
A saint is someone who has been very selfless and, over a period of lifetimes, generated a tremendous amount of good karma, which has caused them to enter into very lovely states of mind. — 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
The short way to happiness is through kindness and sensitivity. — Frederick Lenz
Do I believe in reincarnation? Well, let’s say that I believe in karma. I think you make your own karma. — Diane Von Furstenberg
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
Be kind; you're only here for a while. No sense of superiority, just do things for others. It's really fun. — Frederick Lenz
Arjuna, who is the fearless waririor in the story is a very wordly indvidual, we assume with high past lives. — Frederick Lenz
When you practice selfless giving, you're in balance and harmony with everything. — Frederick Lenz
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
I have written and spoken my thoughts over many years. Now I'm on new ground and spirit. I want to bring these together. Things like karma yoga, bhakti yoga, conscious dying, conscious aging. Consciousness. — Ram Dass
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
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
Meditation is the ultimate selfless act, because when you meditate you are sacrificing your puny personality for the universal reality. — 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
Have the courage to be selfless in a world were such qualities are not admired. Dare to be differnt. Be crazy! — Frederick Lenz
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
Selfless giving is friendliness. An attitude towards life, a reverence for life. It is one of the highest of all ways. — Frederick Lenz
In the Bhagavad-Gita, a dialogue ensues in the middle of a battlefield, symbolizing the battlefield of life which we are fighting through our illusions. — 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
If your nature is infinite awareness trapped in a body, suddenly there's a lack of happiness, a lack of freedom. No matter what you get you'll never be happy, because these are all trinkets. — 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
The "Bhagavad Gita" is actually a very good text for yoga - the yoga of love, the yoga of action or karma, the yoga of understanding of intellect, and the yoga of reflection and meditation. I think it's a very important map for understanding the nature of consciousness. — Deepak Chopra
The Atma is everywhere. — Sathya Sai Baba
There are certain yoga laws and principles that are, shall we say, less tangible than others. For example, the law of karma. Science has proven what goes up must come down, but that's about as far as it's gone. To believe that for every action, word, and thought, there is an equal consequence takes something more intuitive, more personal; it's more metaphysical. — Bryan Kest
As a yoga practitioner with some understanding of how karma works, you have to ask the question, "If I am seeking liberation, will it serve my purpose to rob other beings of their freedom?" — Sharon Gannon
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
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
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
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
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
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
Meditation without selfless giving is not enough. You may go into very high states of consciousness but the rough edges will still be there - there may be lots of selfish motives lurking within the self - that you don't see. — Frederick Lenz
Meidtation and selfless giving must always go together. They work together to create immortality. — Frederick Lenz
Selfliss giving rounds the edges in spiritual practice. Many people can meditate very well but they're still very egotistical. — Frederick Lenz
The true hallmark of how advanced a person is, is how they treat those around them. Not simply what they say or what they preach, but the results they generate, how kind they are. — Frederick Lenz
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