Your work is yours; its harvest is not.
Bhagavad Gita Quotes on Karma Yoga
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Quotes drawn from the Bhagavad Gita 12 quotes, each linked to the shloka behind it.
Discover Bhagavad Gita quotes on Karma Yoga, the path of selfless action that turns everyday work into spiritual practice without attachment to rewards.
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Let balance be how you work, not a reward for finishing.
Skill means giving the work everything and clinging to none of it.
Act without longing for the fruit, and no action will stain you.
Commit to this discipline: how you work shapes who you become.
Join your mind to the work, then let the work go.
Action done rightly is its own kind of renunciation.
Action done as an offering sustains the world.
Every task is a chance to practise freedom.
Work as an offering is work that cannot bind.
Seekers before you acted, and found freedom in action.
The way of action runs deeper than it looks.
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