Karma Quotes - Page 14

• The idea of "karma" reeks of primitive religious superstition, so I don't place a lot of stock in it.

  Jim Goad

  Religious, Ideas, Superstitions

  Source: love-and-pop.com

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• Karma is not something pessimistic. If you think of karma as something wrong, you are seeing karma only according to what happened in the past. You look at the past and karma becomes a monster. So you should also look at karma in the present and future. Then karma becomes something very wide and really alive. Through karma you can understand what your destiny is. Destiny itself has no solid form; it's something you can create. You can create your life. That is why we study karma.

  Dainin Katagiri

  Past, Destiny, Thinking

  Dainin Katagiri (2008). “Each Moment Is the Universe: Zen and the Way of Being Time”, p.174, Shambhala Publications

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• We all have our own karma and so different teachers will be meaningful to different students.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Meaningful, Teacher, Different

  Source: studybuddhism.com

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• But guilt is guilt. It doesn't go away. It can't be nullified. It can't even be fully understood, I'm certain - it's roots run too deep into private and long-standing karma. About the only thing that saves my neck when I get to feeling this way is that guilt is an imperfect form of knowledge. Just because it isn't perfect doesn't mean that it can't be used. The hard thing to do is to put it to practical use, before it gets around to paralyzing you.

  J. D. Salinger

  Running, Mean, Roots

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• Everyone has their set of problems and I'm certainly not going to sensationalize mine or try to evoke pity or sympathy out of people because I don't think they warrant that sort of thing. That's my private karma that I have to work out.

  Chrissie Hynde

  Thinking, People, Work Out

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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

  Sleep, Emotional, Silence

  Richard Brautigan (1989). “Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America ; The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster ; And, In Watermelon Sugar”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Leave the problems of God to God and karma to karma. Today you're here and nothing you do will change that. Today you are alive and here and honored and blessed with good fortune. Look at this suset, it's beautiful, neh? This sunset exists. Tomorrow does not exist. There is only now. Please look. It is so beautiful and it will never happen ever again, never, not this sunset, never in all infinity. Lose yourself in it, make yourself one with nature and do not worry about karma, yours, mine, or that of the village.

  James Clavell

  Beautiful, Blessed, Sunset

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• To the worldy man Karma is a stern Nemesis, to the spiritual man Karma unfolds itself in harmony with his highest aspirations.

  William Quan Judge

  Spiritual, Men, Harmony

  William Quan Judge (1975). “Echoes of the Orient: The Writings of William Quan Judge”

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• Each individual has to burn out his own karma and escape from the chains of maya (illusion), reincarnation, and all that.

  George Harrison

  Illusion, Individual, Reincarnation

  "The Mantra 'Keeps Me in Tune with Reality'". Interview with Mukunda Goswami, www.beliefnet.com. 1982.

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• As a yoga practitioner with some understanding of how karma works, you have to ask the question, "If I am seeking liberation, will it serve my purpose to rob other beings of their freedom?"

  Sharon Gannon

  Yoga, Understanding, Purpose

  Interview with Alicia Silverstone, thekindlife.com. September 17, 2014.

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• I don't miss another opportunity to try to do my best to finish the things I have left undone. I could say: It's my unresolved karma that wakes me up in the morning.

  Sharon Gannon

  Morning, Opportunity, Missing

  "Chanting Compassion with David Life & Sharon Gannon". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Oppressive bastards, think they own the place. I told them that karma's going to kick their asses.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Thinking, Ass, Kicks

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• I'm pessimistic about the future of the planet. These big guys don't realize for everything they do, there's a reaction. You have to pay. That's karma.

  George Harrison

  Guy, Pessimistic, Pay

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• Unless you're doing some kind of God conscious thing and you know that He's the one who's really in charge, you're just building up a lot of karma and not really helping yourself or anybody else.

  George Harrison

  Building Up, Helping, Kind

  "Why being a Beatle was not enough". Interview with Richard Williams, www.theguardian.com. December 6, 2001.

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• People walking? Karma walking ... Buddha nature walking..!

  Frederick Franck

  People, Buddha Nature, Walking

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• There are certain yoga laws and principles that are, shall we say, less tangible than others. For example, the law of karma. Science has proven what goes up must come down, but that's about as far as it's gone. To believe that for every action, word, and thought, there is an equal consequence takes something more intuitive, more personal; it's more metaphysical.

  Bryan Kest

  Believe, Yoga, Law

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• It's better to do something, even if you're attached to the results.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Results, Ifs

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• Life is like a piece of string with a lot of knots tied in it. The knots are the karma you're born with from all your past lives, and the object of human life is to try and undo all those knots. That's what chanting and meditation in God consciousness can do. Otherwise you simply tie another ten knots each time you try to undo one knot. That's how karma works.

  George Harrison

  Past, Ties, Meditation

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• A realized being would not be making any fresh karma because karma is very much connected to the ego but would still be receiving the results of past karma.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Past, Ego, Receiving

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• Through yoga practice you can change the course of your life by purifying your karma. But to do that you must have an idea of where you've been and where you want to go.

  Sharon Gannon

  Yoga, Practice, Ideas

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

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• We meet no Stranger, but Ourself.

  Emily Dickinson

  Stranger

  Emily Dickinson, Thomas Herbert Johnson, Theodora Ward (1986). “The Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.478, Harvard University Press

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• As you pass through this life, have you done all that you really wish to for others?

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Wish, Done

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• How do you become enlightened? I don't know: Luck, karma, skill, friends in high places, friends in low places.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Skills, Luck

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• Many spiritual teachers have done this. They have disbanded their whole community because everyone got angry. The karma, at a certain point, has to go back to the person; it's intensified and hurts them spiritually.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Teacher, Hurt

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• If I used justice, you'd all be dead. The karma that you throw at me when you don't like me - if I just let it come back, you'd all be destroyed in no time.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Justice, Rama

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