Yoga Quotes

Selfless giving has a lot to do with what happens to you in the future. There is karma, both good and bad.

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.

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

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.

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.

The yoga of selfless giving is easy for anyone to practice. The key is detachment. The spirit is unattachment to results.

Selfless giving is love in action. Initially you will feel that you should help in a certain way, with a certain result. Do your best, but don't be concerned with results; do it for the infinite.

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.

Very often people give to others to control them and dominant them.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Selfless giving is measured by how good you feel. Self giving should be obvious.

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.

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.

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.

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"

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

In the big picture we are all eternal.

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

The difficult opponent is the best.

Kirshna's message is eternal - fight!

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Advanced Buddhist Yoga is the art of altering your karmic patterns.