Karma Quotes - Page 18

• Having a tough time, things aren't working out no matter what you try and do? That's because you are spending your whole life just doing things for yourself. That's a very limited view of your being.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Views, Work Out

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• Eternity gives life to all and sustains all, transforms all on the wheel of dharma - until all attain perfection.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Perfection, Giving

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• When you do something for someone else, it's for you. When you do something for yourself, it's for someone else.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Karma Yoga

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• Then we see that the same God is within ourselves.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Karma Yoga

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• Finally, we see that there is no one and nothing but God.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Karma Yoga

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• Then you will pick yourself up, no matter how tired you are, and go forward again and again and again, until you've reached liberation.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Tired, Matter

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• Well, yes, I could give up for myself but no, there are others whom I will be able to help and they're waiting for me and if I don't complete my task, if I don't do this perfectly, then what about them? They'll suffer.

  Frederick Lenz

  Giving Up, Yoga, Waiting

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• You can only be really happy when you become what you really are.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Really Happy, Karma Yoga

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• 'Nature is conquered by obedience' - and her resistless energies are at our bidding, as soon as we, by knowledge, work with them and not against them. We can choose out of her boundless stores the forces that serve our purpose in momentum, in direction, and so on, and their very invariability becomes the guarantee of our success.

  Annie Besant

  Energy, Bidding, Momentum

  Annie Besant (2012). “The Theosophical Writings of Annie Besant”, p.959, Jazzybee Verlag

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• You have inherited (the) most from yourself, not from your family! The family is only a river through which Soul flows.

  Edgar Cayce

  Rivers, Soul, Flow

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• Since karma is meeting self, we acquire karma as we meet self in our many attitudes and emotions; when we serve in loving kindness and patience or hold resentful malicious thoughts What we do to our fellow man we do to our Maker our karma or problem is within self.

  Edgar Cayce

  Attitude, Kindness, Men

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• Enlightenment is represented by Sri Krishna, who is said to be an avatar.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Enlightenment, Krishna

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• Everyone is part of you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Karma Yoga

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• My karma just ran over my dogma.

  Barbara Johnson

  Dogma, Ran

  Barbara Johnson (2000). “Boomerang Joy: Joy That Goes Around, Comes Around”, p.163, Zondervan

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• I had never been able to believe that God would give us poor frail humans only one chance at making it -- that we would be assigned to some kind of hell because we failed during one experience of mortal life. ... So the concepts of karma and reincarnation made logical sense to me.

  Jane Goodall

  Believe, Giving, Would Be

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• Arjuna, who is the fearless waririor in the story is a very wordly indvidual, we assume with high past lives.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Past, Fearless

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• Karma means your have to live with the consequences of the actions you have taken in the past. Whatever you put out is coming back.

  Deepak Chopra

  Taken, Mean, Past

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• It was not uncommon for the children to be told they were being treated this way because it was their bad karma and they must have hurt a child in a past life.

  Mary Garden

  Hurt, Children, Past

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• The basic idea of karma is not punishment. Karma presents the opportunity for development; to make use of opportunities that were not taken advantage of, to fill in gaps of ignorance, to enlarge understanding through experience, to do what should be done.

  Seth

  Taken, Ignorance, Opportunity

  "The Early Sessions: Sessions 1-42 : 11/26/63-4/8/64" by Seth, Jane Roberts, Robert F. Butts, The Early Sessions: Book 8, Session 388, (p. 158), 1997.

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• Who hath a prospect of the different state of perfect happiness or misery that attends all men after this life, depending on their behavior, the measures of good and evil that govern his choice are mightily changed.

  John Locke

  Men, Evil, Perfect

  John Locke (1813). “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding”, p.250

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• 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

  Clever, Husband, Reality

  James Clavell (2009). “Shogun”, p.712, Dell

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• Destiny, or karma, depends upon what the soul has done about what it has become aware of.

  Edgar Cayce

  Destiny, Soul, Done

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• At the moment of death, there are two things that count: whatever we have done in our lives, and what state of mind we are in at that very moment. Even if we have accumulated a lot of negative karma, if we are able to make a real change of heart at the moment of death, it can decisively influence our future, and transform our karma, for the moment of death is an exceptionally powerful opportunity to purify karma.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Death, Powerful, Real

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• Yes, people are busy every day creating new karma for themselves. The reason is they overreact to every slight... Grace and respect are two signs of a mature spiritual individual, whatever his religion or belief.

  Harold Klemp

  Spiritual, Two, Creating

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• Too often in the west we fail to realize that even in eastern disciplines the spiritual life is not meant as an escape from the worldly life. There is karma to be fulfilled on earth, within the dharma of necessity.

  James Hillman

  Spiritual, Discipline, Worldly Life

  Gopi Krishna, James Hillman (1967). “Kundalini: The Evolutionary Energy in Man”

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