What you offer up willingly no longer owns you.
Bhagavad Gita Quotes on Sacrifice
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Quotes drawn from the Bhagavad Gita 16 quotes, each linked to the shloka behind it.
Find Bhagavad Gita quotes on sacrifice, giving up selfish aims and offering your efforts for a higher purpose, in ritual and in everyday life.
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Every disciplined habit is a small sacrifice that purifies.
Sacrifice, rightly understood, washes the heart.
What can you give today that costs you something?
Which habit could you offer up to lighten your life?
Give up the excess; keep the essence.
Enjoy only what remains after you have given.
Wealth shared is wealth sanctified.
Generosity is a form of worship.
Give, discipline yourself, offer; these purify.
Giving and living began together.
Sacrifice means making something sacred by giving it.
Giving, discipline, and offering keep a life clean.
Those who know how to offer are cleansed by the offering.
A life without giving cannot find rest even in comfort.
Offer something daily; it need not be a grand gesture.
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