Quotes On Samskaras

#1. As we grow older and mature in each incarnation, we are drawn back to samskaras, to previous interests and pursuits.

Frederick Lenz

#2. At birth one is Shudra, through education and samskaras, one becomes cultured (Dwija or twice born), then by practicing the Vedas, one becomes Vipra or knowledgeable and it is only by acquiring the knowledge of the Absolute Brahm, does one become enlightened or Brahmin.

Kamlesh Kapur

#3. There are the samskaras, the tendencies from your other lifetimes, ways of seeing, habits that are so strong, they affect you now. They are the operative situations in your life that are created by karma.

Frederick Lenz

#4. Our spirit grows and develops traits in each incarnation that it passes through, and then collects and carries the essence of those traits into future lifetimes. In Buddhist Yoga we refer to our multi-life karmic traits as samskaras.

Frederick Lenz

#5. If there wasn't a way around the samskaras, no one would ever become enlightened.

Frederick Lenz

#6. Human life is full of the play of samskaras - tendencies developed by repeated actions.

Vinoba Bhave

#7. The final battles are the samskaras of good karma. They prevent Samadhi. Naturally for a religious person the avoidance is intensive. They are so hung up on good karma and on method.

Frederick Lenz

#8. The samskaras that were developed in previous incarnations are usually hidden by the temporary amnesia of infancy and by the transient personality.

Frederick Lenz

#9. The three principal samskaras have to do with sex, money and power. In all those countless incarnations that one goes through in the religious practice, the avoidance is tremendous. We brand those things as evil.

Frederick Lenz

#10. You're composed of an aggregate of different forms and energies, the samskaras. These are lines within your own being. When you go into samadhi, these lines dissolve gradually so you become less formed.

Frederick Lenz

#11. In Buddhist Yoga, we refer to our mutlilife karmic traits as samskaras. They are the internal karmic patterns that make each of us who we are.

Frederick Lenz

#12. The process of eliminating the samskaras and reaching complete enlightenment is very technical, wonderful, and mystical process.

Frederick Lenz

#13. As you sit in this light from week to week, you will transform and grow and develop. It washes away the samskaras, the past-life tendencies. It washes away the karmic tendencies from this life.

Frederick Lenz

#14. Words like meditation, karma, samskaras, they're just words. You can get into the jargon, you can speak it, but that doesn't mean you'll be any freer.

Frederick Lenz

#15. The human soul has sojourned in lower and higher forms, migrating from one to another according to the samskaras or impressions, but it is only in the highest form as a human being that it attains to freedom.

Swami Vivekananda

#16. Softening what is rigid in our hearts ...

Pema Chodron

#17. I've been single so long that if I hug a brother, he'll get pregnant!

Tranea Prosser

#18. I think it's important that we have strong, female characters in movies now, which can really leave an impression on people - especially young people - and that they're not 'sexy' or 'cool.'

Saoirse Ronan

#19. Observing that we have waged wars on poverty and drugs as well as cancer, Susan Sontag writes, "Abuse of the military metaphor may be inevitable in

Eula Biss

#20. Ben's chances in the campaign.

Terri Blackstock

#21. Scientific beliefs are supported by evidence, and they get results. Myths and faiths are not and do not.

Richard Dawkins

#22. every time someone watches one of their (Kardashian) shows, a book commits suicide

Sonia Koso

#23. If you get on a TV show that's successful, odds are that you're playing the same character for as many years as the show is running, which can be its own blessing, but it can also be a curse because you're playing the same thing and that can be tiresome.

Sarah Paulson

#24. Youth is marked by a breathtaking novelty that diminishes with each year of age - until life becomes a delusive struggle to break routines, escape the ordinary, and rediscover the joy of discovery.

Zack Love

#25. Be quietly confident.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#26. Life is not a destination to be reached, but it is a journey to be enjoyed.

Debasish Mridha

#27. The nineteenth century planted the words which the twentieth century ripened into the atrocities of Stalin and Hitler. There is hardly an atrocity committed in the twentieth century that was not foreshadowed or even advocated by some noble man of words in the nineteenth.

Eric Hoffer

#28. I think that every job that you can save is important. Every job that you can create is very important and it should not be the number one reason why we invest in infrastructure to create jobs.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#29. Look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, ...

Martin Luther King Jr.

#30. The light of love flows out of my soul, but it can go nowhere because it's blocked by pain. I could inhale and exhale every morning for the rest of my life, but that wouldn't solve anything.

Paulo Coelho