Top karma Quotes Collection

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Image of Sakyong Mipham
Like gravity, karma is so basic we often don't even notice it.
- Sakyong Mipham
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Image of Vinoba Bhave
Though the names 'karma', 'yoga' and 'sannyasa' are different, the truth at the heart of both is the same.
- Vinoba Bhave
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Image of John Waters
So many great people are dead, and so many assholes I know are still alive. Karma's bullshit. I wish it was true, but it ain't.
- John Waters
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Image of Peter Høeg
It's these small differences in people's karma that determine if we get up or remain lying on the ground.
- Peter Høeg
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Image of Amish Tripathi
It is your karma to fight evil. It doesn't matter if the people that evil is being committed against don't fight back. It doesn't matter if the entire world chooses to look the other way. Always remember this. You don't live with the consequences of other people's karma. You live with the consequences of your own
- Amish Tripathi
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Image of Richard Brautigan
Karma Repair Kit Items 1-4. 1.Get enough food to eat, and eat it. 2.Find a place to sleep where it is quiet, and sleep there. 3.Reduce intellectual and emotional noise until you arrive at the silence of yourself, and listen to it. 4.
- Richard Brautigan
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Image of Annie Besant
Belief in karma ought to make the life pure, strong, serene and glad. Only our own deeds can hinder us; only our own will can fetter us. Once let men recognize this truth, and the hour of their liberation has struck. Nature cannot enslave the soul that by wisdom has gained power and uses both in love.
- Annie Besant
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Image of Surya Das
The more truthful I am with myself and others, the more my conscience is clear and tranquil. Thus, I can more thoroughly and unequivocally inhabit the present moment and accept everything that happens without fear, knowing that what goes around comes around (the law of karma). Ethical morality and self-discipline represent the good ground, or stable basis. Mindful awareness is the skillful and efficacious grow-path, or way. Wisdom and compassion constitute the fruit, or result. This is the essence of Buddhism [...]
- Surya Das
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Image of Jaggi Vasudev
Karma is your survival and your bondage. And if you handle it right, it can also be your liberation.
- Jaggi Vasudev
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Image of Jonny Wilkinson
Failing at something is one thing, but Buddhism tells us that it is up to us how we interpret that failure [Buddhism] a philosophy and way of life that resonates with me I identify with it. I agree with so much of the sentiment behind it. I enjoy the liberating effect it's had on me to get back into the game Buddhism, with its concepts of karma and rebirth, have freed me from the twin fears of death and life without rugby, like life, will also come to an end.
- Jonny Wilkinson
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Image of Dada Vaswani
When we begin to understand the concept of Karma we will never ever blame God for anything that happens to us. We will realise that we are responsible for all that happens to us. As we sow, so shall we reap. Rich or poor, saint or sinner, miser or philanthropist, learned or illiterate ... This is the Universal Law that applies to individuals, to whole communities, societies, nations and races. As we sow, so shall we reap.
- Dada Vaswani
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Image of Dada Vaswani
Debts that must be paid ... that sums up the concept of karma. But I would add that karma is not a burden that you have to carry. It is also an opportunity to learn, a chance to practice love and forgiveness, a chance to learn lessons that are valuable to us. Karma offers us the chance to wipe our dirty slate clean, to erase the wrong doings of the past.
- Dada Vaswani
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Image of Dada Vaswani
The law of karma is neither fatalistic nor punitive; nor is man a hapless, helpless victim in its bonds. God has blessed each one of us with reason, intellect and discrimination, as well as the sovereign free will. Even when our past karma inclines us toward evil, we can consciously tune our inclination towards detachment and ego-free action, thus lightening the karmic load.
- Dada Vaswani
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Image of Stephen Batchelor
I reject karma and rebirth not only because I find them unintelligible, but because I believe they obscure and distort what the Buddha was trying to say. Rather than offering the balm of consolation, the Buddha encouraged us to peer deep and unflinchingly into the heart of the bewildering and painful experience that life can so often be.
- Stephen Batchelor
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Image of Robert James Waller
For we have come by different ways to this place... I can tell by the natural ease with which you wear fine clothes and the way your mouth moves when you speak with waiters in good restaurants. You have come the way of castles and cathedrals, of elegance and empire.
- Robert James Waller
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Image of George Saunders
I heard Zen teacher one time talking about abortion, and he was saying the way that abortion makes bad karma is any time the person involved pretends that there's not a cost to the choice, one way or the other; whether you get it or don't get it, there's a cost. That's just basic responsibility, to admit that there's a cost. And the bad karma is when you pretend that the thing is free.
- George Saunders
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Image of Samael Aun Weor
We pay Karma not only for the evil we do but also for the good left undone, being able to do it.
- Samael Aun Weor
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Image of Haruki Murakami
Even chance meetings are the result of karma… Things in life are fated by our previous lives. That even in the smallest events there’s no such thing as coincidence.
- Haruki Murakami
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Image of Gurumayi Chidvilasananda
Only love can penetrate all your karmas and resistances and set your heart on fire with the awareness of its true nature.
- Gurumayi Chidvilasananda
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Image of Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche
Humour allows us to see that ultimately things don't make sense. The only thing that truly makes sense is letting go of anything we continue to hold on to. Our ego-mind and emotions are a dramatic illusion. Of course, we all feel that they're real: my drama, your drama, our confrontations. We create these elaborate scenarios and then react to them. But there is nothing really happening outside our mind! This is karma's cosmic joke. You can laugh about the irony of this, or you can stick with your scenario. It's your choice.
- Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche
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Image of Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche
By approaching everything with a sense of suspicion and struggle, we like to think we're in control of things. But in truth our past karma is simply playing itself out. Instead of struggling with it, however, we can choose to dance.
- Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche
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Image of Eugene O'Neill
We are where centuries only count as seconds, and after a thousand lives, our eyes begin to open.
- Eugene O'Neill
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Image of Yehuda Berg
On one hand, we know that everything happens for a reason, and there are no mistakes or coincidences. On the other hand, we learn that we can never give up, knowing that with the right tools and energy, we can reverse any decree or karma. So, which is it? Let the Light decide, or never give up? The answer is: both.
- Yehuda Berg
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Image of Swami Satchidananda
Though we can't always see it at the time, if we look upon events with some perspective, we see things always happen for our best interests. We are always being guided in a way better than we know ourselves.
- Swami Satchidananda
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Image of Mike Gayle
Good things could happen to not so bad people.
- Mike Gayle
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Image of Pat Robertson
We're importing Hinduism into America. The whole thought of your karma, of meditation, of the fact that there's no end of life and there's this endless wheel of life, this is all Hinduism. Chanting too. Many of those chants are to Hindu Gods — Vishnu, Hare Krishna. The origin of it is all demonic. We can't let that stuff come into America. We've got the best defense, if you will — a good offense.
- Pat Robertson
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Image of Keanu Reeves
The recognition of the law of the cause and effect, also known as karma, is a fundamental key to understand how you've created your world, with actions of your body, speech and mind. When you truly understand karma, then you realize you are responsible for everything in your life. It is incredibly empowering to know that your future is in your hands.
- Keanu Reeves
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Image of Kevin Hearne
I had my own dump truck of bad karma waiting for me somewhere ahwad. I had certainly earned it, but I raced to avoid it if I could; there was no way I wanted to fell that.
- Kevin Hearne
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Image of Bode Miller
Join the bold, the brazen, the unintimidated. Join not having excuses. Join the idea that fun is the source of all joy. Join the unwillingness to give up. Join doing things your way. Join not joining. Join that purpose is stronger than outcome. Join your gut. Join the constant challenge of seeking greatness. Join play. Join the hunger to find what makes you happy. Join karma and nature and the effect you have on your world. Join your philosophy. Join something bigger than you. Join what you believe.
- Bode Miller
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Image of Corey Taylor
I want karma to drive stakes into the dark hearts that keep me bitter.
- Corey Taylor
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Image of Erwin Schrodinger
Vedanta teaches that consciousness is singular, all happenings are played out in one universal consciousness and there is no multiplicity of selves.
- Erwin Schrodinger
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Image of Elvis Presley
Everybody comes from the same source. If you hate another human being, you're hating part of yourself.
- Elvis Presley
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Image of F. Paul Wilson
Your believing or not believing in karma has no effect on its existence, nor on its consequences to you. Just as a refusal to believe in the ocean would not prevent you from drowning.
- F. Paul Wilson
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Image of Felix Adler
Act so as to elicit the best in others and thereby in thyself.
- Felix Adler
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Image of Edgar Cayce
Actually, we have no problems-we have opportunities for which we should give thanks... An error we refuse to correct has many lives. It takes courage to face one's own shortcomings and wisdom to do something about them.
- Edgar Cayce
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Image of Charles Webster Leadbeater
There are some whose Karma is such as to enable them to develop the purely spiritual faculties first of all -- to overleap the astral plane for the time, as it were; and when afterwards they make its acquaintance they have, if their spiritual development has been perfect, the immense advantage of dipping into it from above, with the aid of a spiritual insight which cannot be deceived and a spiritual strength which nothing can resist.
- Charles Webster Leadbeater
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Image of Simon Blackburn
If our best efforts come to nothing often enough, we need consolation, and thoughts of unfolding, infinite destiny, or karma , are sometimes consoling.
- Simon Blackburn
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Image of John Burdett
You don't understand. I only prostitute the part of the body that isn't important, and nobody suffers except my karma a little bit. I don't do big harm. You prostitute your mind. Mind is seat of Buddha. What you do is very very bad. You should not use your mind in that way
- John Burdett
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Image of Candace Bushnell
Retribution is tricky. . . . The insult isn't usually worth the risk of punishment. And eventually one learns that karma has a surprising way of taking care of these situations. All you have to do is sit back and watch.
- Candace Bushnell
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Image of Satya Nadella
It's not really about asking for the raise but knowing and having faith that the system will actually give you the right raises as you go along. And that, I think, might be one of the additional superpowers that, quite frankly, women who don't ask for raises have. Because that's good karma. It'll come back. Because somebody's going to know: 'That's the kind of person that I want to trust. That's the kind of person that I want to really give more responsibility to.'
- Satya Nadella
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Image of Thubten Yeshe
One action produces a reaction; that is karma.
- Thubten Yeshe
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Image of Tejomayananda
When our minds are purified through karma (selfless action) and made single-pointed through up-asana (worship), we cannot remain satisfied with the small achievements in worldly life.
- Tejomayananda
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Image of Nicholas of Cusa
God says to man: 'Be thou thyself, and I shall be thine.'
- Nicholas of Cusa
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Image of Rama Swami
One has to reap the fruits of his karma. The law of karma is inevitable and is accepted by all the great philosophies of the world: 'As you sow, so shall you reap.'
- Rama Swami
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Image of Origen
Every soul... comes into the world strengthened by the victories or weakened by the defeats of its' previous life. Its' place in this world as a vessel appointed to honor or dishonor, is determined by its' previous merits or demerits. Its' work in this world determines its' place in the world which is to follow this.
- Origen
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Image of Amanda Bynes
Never Try To Ruin Someone.. That's Bad Karma.. Let Them Ruin Themselves The Victory Is That Much Sweeter. You Reap What You Sow!
- Amanda Bynes
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Image of Ajahn Brahm
Why seek revenge? Karma is going to get the bastards anyway
- Ajahn Brahm
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Image of Pope Pius XII
To live without risk is to risk not living.
- Pope Pius XII
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Image of James Clavell
Karma is the beginning of knowledge. Next is patience. Patience is very important. The strong are the patient ones, Anjin-san. patience means holding back your inclination to the seven emotions: hate, adoration, joy, anxiety, anger, grief, fear. If you don't give way to the seven, you're patient, then you'll soon understand all manner of things and be in harmony with Eternity.
- James Clavell
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Image of James Clavell
How baffling it was that even the most cunning and clever people would frequently see only what they wanted to see, and would rarely look beyond the thinnest of facades. Or they would ignore reality, dismissing it as the facade. And then, when their whole world fell to pieces...they would tear their topknots or rend their clothes and bewail their karma, blaming gods or kami or luck or their lords or husbands or vassals-anything or anyone-but never themselves.
- James Clavell
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