Bhagavad Gita Quotes

He who gives up action falls. He who gives up the reward rises. But renunciation of fruit in no way means indifference to the result.

No one can be a yogi, maintaining a state of mental equilibrium, free from inner involvement in planned desireful activities, unless he has renounced identification with his ego and its unsatisfiable lust for the fruits of actions.

So do not be concerned with the fruit of your action-just give attention to the action itself. The fruit will come of its own accord.

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.

To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end.

I think my Buddhist practice has a profound influence on my life and encompasses my creative projects.

My faith did not require beauty or belonging - the deeper I went into my practice, the less it required at all.

I'm big into Eastern concepts. The horror of life, the love of children, the whole phantasmagoria - it's all meaningless. Be still, and see what happens. All of life unfolds perfectly. You have to get beyond consciousness.

The sanyasa of the Gita will not tolerate complete cessation of activity.

Effortlessness means not doing anything, inactivity - AKARMA. Effort means doing much, activity - KARMA. Both have to be there. Do much, but don't be a doer - then you achieve both. Move in the world, but don't be a part of it. Live in the world, but don't let the world live in you. Then the contradiction has been absorbed. Then you are not rejecting anything, not denying anything. Then the whole God has been accepted.

To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward.

The sanyasa of the Gita is all work and yet no work.

I'm just the worst little Buddhist in town.

To go from mortal to Buddha, you have to put an end to karma, nurture your awareness, and accept what life brings.

Buddhism teaches you to embrace change.

I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.

I realize that many elements of the Buddhist teaching can be found in Christianity, Judaism, Islam. I think if Buddhism can help, it is the concrete methods of practice.

One thing that attracted me to Buddhism was the support for this larger vision of values.

I describe myself as a simple Buddhist monk. No more, no less.

He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment.

I never stopped studying Buddhism. In the past few years, in between movies, I do a retreat.

I am a simple Buddhist monk - no more, no less.

The Buddha is in me, the Buddha is in you. Live up to it.

Well, I'm Buddhist, Ray, and so part of my Buddhism has allowed me to look a little more deeply at people and the events in my life that created me. And I think a lot of that Buddhism comes out in the world view in this novel.

I think Buddhism is a wonderful philosophy. I've had the good fortune to meet many wonderful teachers from that society.