Karma Yoga Quotes Page 2

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Meidtation and selfless giving must always go together. They work together to create immortality.

Selfliss giving rounds the edges in spiritual practice.

Many people can meditate very well but they're still very egotistical.

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.

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

If you are fortunate enough to meet such a being then you will really learn selfless giving. You'll see that every second, every moment of their awareness is directed towards others.

Christ didn't have to. Buddha didn't have to. They came back to teach. They came back to die, to suffer, when it was no longer necessary for them to do so.

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

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.

You don't need a special task. Every task is special.

Kirshna's message is eternal - fight!

The difficult opponent is the best.

The more talented the opponent, the luckier you are.

You have draw a great deal of strength from your being.

Kirshna says its better to be a winner than a loser.

It runs counter to what a lot of people whould think, because they have watered down, quasi-religious ideas about that which creates in enlightenment.

In the big picture we are all eternal.

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

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

It's always said that when one is a soldier who dies in battle, you go to a very high world. There's a great and good karma for the soldier who dies in battle because it's an extended selfless giving.

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

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.

We see that love manifested normally in the soldier, in the parent, in the lover, and in the spiritual teacher.

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.

There are persons who elected to give their existence to God.

They are happy, happy in their self-giving.

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

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

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

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"

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.

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.

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.

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.