Giving Quotes

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

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.

Selfless giving doesn't mean you let people walk all over you. You get a lot of footprints on your face that way.

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

I practice selfless giving not because I'm remarkable but just because I find that its terrifically fun!

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

Selfless giving does not imply superiority. Selfless giving is about love.

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

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!

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.

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"

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

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

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.

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.

Selfliss giving rounds the edges in spiritual practice. Many people can meditate very well but they're still very egotistical.

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

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.

We label things through value systems that we have developed. But nothing is or is not unless we feel it is that way. We give ground to reality by creating it.

Beyond the ten thousand states of mind is the still point. It exists within them all, yet beyond them. It is not affected by them. It gives birth to them. This is the riddle.

Every moment gives birth to the next moment and influences it. Getting out of that chain of perpetual being is getting off the wheel of birth and death. That is enlightenment.

Help the world in any way that you want to. I have found that the more light you give and spread, the more you will evolve.

In self-giving you must be so careful of egotism. You must be so careful when you are aiding others in their liberation not to have a sense of self.

Within the universe there is a pure light. It is a light that is beyond all darkness. It does not give way to anything. It is the light of existence, the dharmakaya.

The planes of light give you the power to rise above circumstance, the power to rise above your desires and your aversions.

The women that I met were exceptional, extraordinary - tremendous purity, tremendous gentleness, self-giving and power.

The training was rigorous, hundreds and thousands of hours of meditation, self-giving. But it was easy. I loved it. I would merge again and again with the superconscious in meditation.

There are so many to pick from that any list that I give you will be inadequate.

I select people to work more closely when they are prepared to and I see that. They don't have to tell me. I know. I will give them a task of some type, and that task becomes the koan between us.

Your life either takes your energy or gives you energy. Set up your life so that it gives you energy.

Everything starts within your own mind. The physical choices you make, drain your power or give you power. If your power is low, then you stay in lower levels of mind and you don't see opportunities.

You have to be careful that in giving energy, you do not allow yourself to be excessively drained or used.

You can take power from others; you can steal it. It is not a very high-grade power. It will give you a certain amount of access to a better life; but it corrupts the individual.

The nagual gives you the unknown; it gives you reality; it leads you to the totality of yourself.

The description you have been given of the world is an aberrant one. It does not accept and give proper place to the nagual, to the mysterious unknown that is our heritage.

The nagual doesn't give you the ability to get what you want in the tonal.

What is Tantric Zen? Well, I don't think I can give you a straight answer, since I don't happen to be a very straight Zen master.

Tantric Zen is more suited for this age that we live in. It give you rules, but in a gentle way. It's not as demanding.

After meditation, it is a good idea to bow and offer your meditation to god, to that stillness and perfection that is existence. Feel that you are giving your meditation away.

How do you end a meditation session? It's nice to chant a mantra again. Maybe repeat it a few times. It seals the meditation. Do your best and then just give it to eternity.

If you are afraid of someone, you immediately give them an advantage and give them entry to your awareness field.

Go through the things that life gives you to go through, happily. You have to loosen the grip of time, gradually.

The action of giving is in a certain vibratory level, meaning giving exists in a certain plane of consciousness.

Eventually you're supposed to get so confounded by this whole thing that you just give up completely, and that's when it starts to work. Not give up the practice, but give up trying to figure it out.

Perception not only defines existence but it creates existence. It gives it form. Without perception there is no existence.

The rhythm of life is give and take. It is necessary to put things back into the system. To not do that is to foul your own nest - to use up all the natural resources greedily.

I can't give you happiness. I can show you where it is, but I can't give it to you. How can I give you what you already have? You have to get it yourself, inside your mind.

It is is easy to smile. It is an act of self-giving. When you smile you are at your best and you give that best to others.

When you love someone, you shouldn't feel that they should love in return. You have to give people freedom.

You can't throw your ego away, but you can use its innate desire to experience that which is beyond itself to give you the impetus to meditate.