What Is Karma Quotes
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.
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.
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.
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.
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"
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.
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.
We see that love manifested normally in the soldier, in the parent, in the lover, and in the spiritual teacher.
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.
A realized being would not be making any fresh karma because karma is very much connected to the ego but would still be receiving the results of past karma.
We all have our own karma and so different teachers will be meaningful to different students.
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.
If you lie to a person at least tell someone else you've lied to the truth. It balances out your karma.
The role of the Buddhist teacher is to explain your options and to show you what creates karma. All our discussions are basically karmic until you're fully engaged in samadhi.
If even one woman in the West were to become enlightened, it would change karmas on this planet.
What a man must do is realize that his continued belief in the inferiority of women is going to produce a type of karma that is going to hold him back, and already has.
When we judge, we create negative karma. When we say of an action: 'This is right,' or, 'That is wrong,' we create negative karma.
Because this is the beauty of strangers: we're all just doing our best to help each other out, motivated not by karma but by a natural instinct to help the greater whole.
If I hear ‘Karma Chameleon’ one more time, I swear I’m going to find Boy George and make him eat Jesse’s record. What does red, gold, and green have to do with anything anyway? (Gloria)
Someone please tell me that we’re not seriously having a friggin’ debate over the genius of ‘Karma Chameleon’ at seven o’clock in the morning? (Xypher)
Where there is Dharma there is no karma. So we have to lean on Dharmic values and we have to build a Dharmic family, we have to relate to that family and we have to relate to it deeply.