Bhakti Yoga Quotes:

We cannot say that you are spiritually advanced if you are unkind to those around you.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Yoga, Bhakti Yoga, Ifs

When you find that you're unhappy, know that it's because you're not loving properly.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Yoga, Unhappy, Bhakti Yoga

If they love another, let them love!

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Yoga, Bhakti Yoga, Ifs

You don't love perfectly without first loving imperfectly.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Yoga, Firsts, Bhakti Yoga

It's far better to love impefectly than not to love at all.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Yoga, Bhakti Yoga

Ask youself: "Am I loving as deeply as I am capable of loving?"

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Yoga, Bhakti Yoga, Asks

Love comes from ourselves, not from someone else.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Yoga, Bhakti Yoga

Enjoy being with yourself, hanging out with yourself, doing things by yourself.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Yoga, Bhakti Yoga, Enjoy

In love we listen. We listen to what others say. We listen to what our own being is telling us about the nature of existence.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Yoga, Bhakti Yoga, Existence

Everything is a formation or an aggregate of love.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Yoga, Bhakti Yoga, Formation

We begin by loving and accepting ourselves.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Yoga, Accepting, Bhakti Yoga

Actually everyting is right, even the errors.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Yoga, Errors, Bhakti Yoga

Bhakti is expressed through our service attitude.

- Radhanath Swami

topic: Attitude, Bhakti, Bhakti Yoga

One is the path of devotion, what in India is called BHAKTI yoga, the path of love and devotion - a Meera, a Chaitanya, dancing and singing, losing themselves completely in the act. When Meera is dancing there is only dance, there is no Meera; the dancer is completely merged into the dance. When Chaitanya is singing and dancing there is no Chaitanya; he has become one with the act.

- Rajneesh

topic: Yoga, Dancing, Dancer, Path Of Love, Bhakti

Devotion (Bhakti) includes Sentimental Devotion (Bhav Bhakti) and Devotion through action (Kruti Bhakti).

- Pandurang Shastri Athavale

topic: Sentimental, Action, Devotion, Bhakti, Bhakti Yoga

The path of bhakti, karma and love as expounded in the Gita leaves no room for the despising of man by man.

- Mahatma Gandhi

source: Mahatma Gandhi (1950). “Hindu Dharma”

topic: Karma, Men, Gita, Bhakti, Bhakti Yoga

Ram Dass

- Ram Dass

source: Ram Dass (2013). “Polishing the Mirror: How to Live from Your Spiritual Heart”, p.80, Sounds True

topic: Art, Pain, Unbearable, Transcending, Quaker

Who cares for your bhakti and mukti? Who cares what your scriptures say? I will go into a thousand hells cheerfully if I can rouse my countrymen, immersed in tamas, to stand on their own feet and be men inspired with the spirit of karma-yoga. I am a follower only of he or she who serves and helps others without caring for his own bhakti and mukti!

- Swami Vivekananda

topic: Karma, Yoga, Caring, Bhakti, Bhakti Yoga

Those who are lacking in bhakti (devotion), lacking in faith, are ill qualified to interpret the scriptures.

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Faith, Scripture, Devotion, Bhakti, Bhakti Yoga

There's no place to go. There's nothing to attain. There's nothing to be reached. Love itself is all that you want.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Yoga, Want, Places To Go, Bhakti Yoga

When we meditate with love we go very, very high , above thought, above form. Your love will cause you to have a union.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Yoga, Unions, Causes, Bhakti Yoga

On the path of love we feel that if we love today, it's only because God is loving through us, because there is a special grace present with which we can love.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Yoga, Grace, Special, Path Of Love, Bhakti Yoga

Humble people dont get Offended easily.

- Radhanath Swami

topic: Humility, Humble, People, Offence, Stay Humble

On the path of love we don't feel we necessarily have control. In the yoga of love we feel it's only God who does everything. We can't breathe one breath without God.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Yoga, Doe, Path Of Love, Bhakti Yoga

One who practices the yoga of love is like child. When the child has a problem, it cries. When it cries, someone comes and helps the child.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Children, Yoga, Love Is, Bhakti Yoga

Yogas chitta vritti nirodhah - (Yoga is to check the mind from changing) - which is acceptable to all. That is also the goal of all. The method is chosen according to one's own fitness. The goal for all is the same. Yet different names are given to the goal only to suit the process preliminary to reaching the goal. Bhakti, Yoga, Jnana are all the same.

- Ramana Maharshi

topic: Spiritual, Wisdom, Yoga, Different Names, Bhakti

The most successful way to combat these dark clouds that come between the light of you and that which you love, is to feel that love itself will rescue you.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Yoga, Successful, Dark, Bhakti Yoga

Love is the shortcut to meditation. Above thought is love, and within and below thought is love. Love is a ladder that we can climb through thought.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Love Is, Meditation, Ladders, Bhakti Yoga

If we examine the essence of existence, we'll find that the essence is love. There really is nothing that isn't love.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Yoga, Essence, Existence, Bhakti Yoga

When you love, you should always watch the quality of your love.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Yoga, Love You, Quality, Bhakti Yoga

As long as you're too busy trying to become something that you're not, you can't see your own immortality.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Yoga, Long, Trying, Bhakti Yoga

In the most advanced state of love we don't love for any reason or purpose. We don't even direct our love necessarily to an object.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Yoga, Purpose, Our Love, Bhakti Yoga

The path of love. Good luck. May your love guide you through the bardo to eternity.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Yoga, Good Luck, May, Path Of Love, Bhakti Yoga

Love leads us to ourselves - this is the mystery of love.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Yoga, Mystery, Mystery Of Love, Bhakti Yoga

The ego is not harmonious with happiness and spiritual development. In the process of spiritual transformation we refine it. In the fire of love we melt the ego down.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Spiritual, Yoga, Fire, Spiritual Development, Fire Of Love

The ego is a false perception of self. It's an idea, a transitory identity that we've picked up.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Yoga, Self, Ideas, False Perception, Bhakti Yoga

The only way you can really evaluate spiritual advancement is to see how someone treats those who are close to them.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Spiritual, Yoga, Advancement, Bhakti Yoga

In the yoga of love, one has a teacher. It is the teacher whom one loves.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Teacher, Yoga, One Love, Bhakti Yoga

Bhakti yoga is a way of transforming your emotion from negativity to utmost pleasantness.

- Jaggi Vasudev

topic: Spiritual, Yoga, Negativity, Bhakti, Bhakti Yoga

As long as you're running away from a part of yourself, you can't see immortality.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Running, Yoga, Long, Bhakti Yoga

The path of love has many opponents - fear, self-pity, anxiety, hate, lust, greed, avarice - all the usual freinds.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Hate, Yoga, Self, Path Of Love, Bhakti Yoga

Someone maybe be able to meditate well, but if they can't manifest that meditation in just good common sense by loving and being king to those who are around them, then I can't say they're spiritually developed.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Kings, Yoga, Common Sense, Bhakti Yoga

We're too insignificant and small to really be able to do anything, except cry, not unhappily, but an inner cry, a feeling of reaching to God.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Yoga, Feelings, Able, Bhakti Yoga

The message of love is self-acceptance in the smaller sense and self-acceptance in the large sense - the Self as eternity.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Yoga, Acceptance, Love Is, Bhakti Yoga

In this world people love to talk and be active. Everyone wants to express their opinion. Listen in meditation, not to your thoughts but to your feelings.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Yoga, People, Meditation, Bhakti Yoga

Most people suffer in love because of attachment. Attachment means we're interested in a net return on our investment.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Yoga, Mean, Love Is, Bhakti Yoga

Only real love of the infinite will motivate you. While pain motivates, once we feel comfortable and the pain has stopped, we'll stop evolving. Love is a far superior spiritual vehicle.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Spiritual, Pain, Real, Bhakti Yoga

Certainly, you may have been hurt beofre in love, but just because you get one bad apple doesn't mean they are all bad - and you can learn from the difficult ones.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Hurt, Yoga, Mean, Bad Apple, Bhakti Yoga

Practice love and self-acceptance and you'll have an absolutely beautiful life.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Beautiful, Yoga, Acceptance, Bhakti Yoga

Love is visceral and real. Love is physical. It embraces all things. Love doesn't space you out or take you out of this world.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Real, Yoga, Love Is, Bhakti Yoga

I teach Zen, tantric mysticism, jnana yoga, bhakti yoga, Tibetan mysticism, occultism and psychic development. I also teach poetry and literature, film and many other different things.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Yoga, Buddhism, Psychics, Bhakti, Bhakti Yoga

Bhakti yoga isn't something you join, it's love. It means falling in love.

- Krishna Das

source: Twitter post from Feb 15, 2016

topic: Falling In Love, Yoga, Mean, Bhakti, Bhakti Yoga

Lack of judgement doesn't mean that you don't see what is or is not. It simply means that you realize that everyone is constantly changing - everyone is made up of conscioussness.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Yoga, Mean, Judgement, Bhakti Yoga

Everyone is a flux - so it's good to suspend judgements forever.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Yoga, Forever, Judgement, Bhakti Yoga

The judgment that you pass today will only hinder a person in their spiritual evolution. All you do is say to the person, psychically: "This is what you are. You're fixed. You can't change."

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Spiritual, Yoga, Today, Spiritual Evolution, Bhakti Yoga

When you follow the path of love you should feel that each one is perfect in their own right. While you can love others, never, ever, ever judge them.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Yoga, Love You, Perfect, Path Of Love, Bhakti Yoga

A child in the 4th grade who's just learning algebra is not imperfect. While there may be a child in the 12th grade who's much better, the child who's learning is not imperfect.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Children, Yoga, May, Bhakti Yoga

Don't be afraid to experiement with your life and with your heart, your meditation and your being. Just love.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Yoga, Heart, Meditation, Bhakti Yoga