Inspirational Quotes from The Bhagavad Gita

Emerson instructed us to “Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your reading have been to you like the blast of truimpth out of Shakespeare, Seneca, Moses, John and Paul.”

Following Emerson’s guidance, I offer some of my favorite blasts of triumph. These quotes I draw from The Bhagavad Gita by Krishna.

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• Be fearless and pure; never waver in your determination or your dedication to the spiritual life. Give freely. Be self-controlled, sincere, truthful, loving, and full of the desire to serve...Learn to be detached and to take joy in renunciation. Do not get angry or harm any living creature, but be compassionate and gentle; show good will to all. Cultivate vigor, patience, will, purity; avoid malice and pride. Then, you will achieve your destiny.

  ~ Krishna quotes from The Bhagavad Gita

  Inspirational Quotes on: Courage, Growth, Joy, Truth, Life, Destiny, Fear, Determination, Achieve, Serve

• He alone sees truly who sees the Lord the same in every creature...seeing the same Lord everywhere, he does not harm himself or others.

  ~ Krishna quotes from The Bhagavad Gita

  Famous Quotes on: Love, Interconnectedness

• It is better to perform one's own duties imperfectly than to master the duties of another. By fulfilling the obligations he is born with, a person never comes to grief.

  ~ Krishna quotes from The Bhagavad Gita

  Inspirational Quotes on: Vision, Purpose

• No one should abandon duties because he sees defects in them. Every action, every activity, is surrounded by defects as a fire is surrounded by smoke.

  ~ Krishna quotes from The Bhagavad Gita

  Self-Development Quotes on: Wisdom, Learning

• Reshape yourself through the power of your will... Those who have conquered themselves...live in peace, alike in cold and heat, pleasure and pain, praise and blame...To such people a clod of dirt, a stone, and gold are the same...Because they are impartial, they rise to great heights.

  ~ Krishna quotes from The Bhagavad Gita

  Self-Development Quotes on: Action, Self-mastery, Power, People, Peace

• The awakened sages call a person wise when all his undertakings are free from anxiety about results.

  ~ Krishna quotes from The Bhagavad Gita

  Self-Development Quotes on: Attitude, Non-attachment, Wise

• It is better to strive in one’s own dharma than to succeed in the dharma of another. Nothing is ever lost in following one’s own dharma. But competition in another’s dharma breeds fear and insecurity.

  ~ Krishna quotes

• The demonic do things they should avoid and avoid the things they should do… Hypocritical, proud, and arrogant, living in delusion and clinging to their deluded ideas, insatiable in their desires, they pursue unclean ends… Bound on all sides by scheming and anxiety, driven by anger and greed, they amass by any means they can a hoard of money for the satisfaction of their cravings… Self-important, obstinate, swept away by the pride of wealth, they ostentatiously perform sacrifices without any regard for their purpose. Egotistical, violent, arrogant, lustful, angry, envious of everyone, they abuse my presence within their own bodies and in the bodies of others

  ~ Krishna quotes

• Abandon all attachment to the results of action and attain supreme peace.

  ~ Krishna quotes

• Those who eat too much or eat too little, who sleep too much or sleep too little, will not succeed in meditation. But those who are temperate in eating and sleeping, work and recreation, will come to the end of sorrow through meditation.

  ~ Krishna quotes

• When meditation is mastered, the mind is unwavering, like the flame of a lamp in a windless place.

  ~ Krishna quotes

• Strive to still your thoughts. Make your mind one-pointed in meditation.

  ~ Krishna quotes

• When a person is devoted to something with complete faith, I unify his faith in that. Then, when his faith his completely unified, he gains the object of his devotion.”

  ~ Krishna quotes

• On this path effort never goes to waste, and there is no failure. Even a little effort toward spiritual awareness will protect you from the greatest fear.

  ~ Krishna quotes

• Strive constantly to serve the welfare of the world; by devotion to selfless work one attains the supreme goal of life. Do your work with the welfare of others always in mind.”

  ~ Krishna quotes

Big Ideas from The Bhagavad Gita

“Big Ideas” are simply the gems I’ve pulled out of my favorite books/seminars/life lessons. These ones I pulled from The Bhagavad Gita

• Krishna: Wisdom & Non-Attachment
• Krishna: Dharma
• Krishna: Live Your Dharma
• Krishna: Fire & Smoke
• Krishna: Seeing Truly
• Krishna: The Power of Our Will
• Krishna: Two Paths
• Krishna: Results & Non-Attachment
• Krishna: Temperance of a Yogi
• Krishna: Meditate
• Krishna: How’s Your Faith?
• Krishna: There Is No Failure
• Krishna: Selfless Service

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