Karma Quotes - Page 20

• 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

  Mind, Suffering, Important

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• You cannot control the results, only your actions.

  Allan Lokos

  Action, Results

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• 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

  Teacher, Responsibility, Talking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• A lot of the book [The Yoga of Max's Discontent] is about karma and rebirth. Things like that are very attuned to my life as an Indian, but when I approach it from a perspective of a Westerner, then I have a skeptical, yet kind of novice view on it. I think that choice really liberated the story to be its own story. A lot of the conclusions that Max reaches on his own are not mine at all. So, I think that allowed the story to take on its own momentum, to have its own propulsive force.

  Karan Bajaj

  Yoga, Book, Thinking

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• The concept of karma is a beautiful concept in Sanskrit. The whole idea of karma is that every being has an innate tendency - the karma of ice is to be cold, the karma of fire is to burn, the karma of the trees is to grow and bear fruit. In the same way, a human has a certain thrust. What I've realized is that my thrust is to be in the world, like in the world of business.

  Karan Bajaj

  Beautiful, Fire, Ice

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Love, Buddhist, Cooking

  H. Jackson Brown Jr. (2007). “Complete Life's Little Instruction Book: 1,560 Suggestions, Observations, and Reminders on How to Live a Happy and Rewarding Life”, p.244, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest.

  Randy Pausch

  Believe, People, Payback

  YouTube Channel "Carnegie Mellon University"/"Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams", www.youtube.com. December 20, 2007.

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• The will is not free - it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect - but there is something behind the will which is free.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspiring, Past, Causes

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2374, Manonmani Publishers

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• Things don't just happen in this world of arising and passing away. We don't live in some kind of crazy, accidental universe. Things happen according to certain laws, laws of nature. Laws such as the law of karma, which teaches us that as a certain seed gets planted, so will that fruit be.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Crazy, Law, Passing Away

  "Buddhism: Between Desire and Emptiness" by Sharon Salzberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 3, 2010.

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• But life inevitably throws us curve balls, unexpected circumstances that remind us to expect the unexpected. I've come to understand these curve balls are the beautiful unfolding of both karma and current.

  Carre Otis

  Beautiful, Curves, Balls

  "Flexibility, Inside and Out headshot" by Carre Otis, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 12, 2012.

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• Everyone gets dumped and everyone gets hurt and there's karma to love in regards to what you've done to other people.

  Marina and the Diamonds

  Hurt, People, Done

  "Marina And The Diamonds New Album Deets". Interview with Emily Laurence, www.seventeen.com. April 27, 2012.

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• You and I have been physically given two hands and two legs and half-decent brains. Some people have not been born like that for a reason. The karma is working from another lifetime.

  Glenn Hoddle

  Hands, Two, People

  "Is Believing in God Irrational". Book by Amy Orr-Ewing, p.75, October 2, 2008.

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• I'm probably my biggest critic. I worry that if you spend any quality time reveling in good things then karma will slap you upside the head, so I try to stay as even keel as I'm able.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Worry, Trying, Quality

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• I have this system where if I buy three or four new things, I give away three or four things. Sometimes, it's a very painful system, but shopping is even better when you know that someone else who needs it will be getting. Keep the clothing karma going, I say.

  Sara Blakely

  Shopping, Giving, Three

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• Give with a truly glad heart, for the sole purpose of the good it will do, and whatever you give shall return to you, multiplied, as if on wings, covered in sparkles.

  Mike Dooley

  Inspirational, Heart, Wings

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• Because this is the beauty of strangers: we're all just doing our best to help each other out, motivated not by karma but by a natural instinct to help the greater whole.

  Sloane Crosley

  Natural Instinct, Helping, Stranger

  Sloane Crosley (2012). “I Was Told There'd Be Cake”, p.79, Portobello Books

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• To begin living like you've never lived before, begin living like you've never lived before.

  Mike Dooley

  Inspirational, Like You

  FaceBook post by Mike Dooley from Jul 17, 2012

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• 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

  Opportunity, Perspective, Events

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• Who cares for your bhakti and mukti? Who cares what your scriptures say? I will go into a thousand hells cheerfully if I can rouse my countrymen, immersed in tamas, to stand on their own feet and be men inspired with the spirit of karma-yoga. I am a follower only of he or she who serves and helps others without caring for his own bhakti and mukti!

  Swami Vivekananda

  Yoga, Caring, Helping Others

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• Friends or foes, they are all instruments in Her hands to help us work out our own karma, through pleasure or pain. As such, 'Mother' bless all.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Mother, Pain, Hands

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3005, Manonmani Publishers

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• Enron's president, Ken Lay, passed away last week. So, I guess even God lost money on that Enron deal. I believe the official cause of death was listed as "karma." The family asked in lieu of flowers, please send some elderly retiree's entire life savings.

  Jay Leno

  Believe, Flower, Elderly

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• The universe that we inhabit and our shared perception of it are the results of a common karma. Likewise, the places that we will experience in future rebirths will be the outcome of the karma that we share with the other beings living there. The actions of each of us, human or nonhuman, have contributed to the world in which we live. We all have a common responsibility for our world and are connected with everything in it.

  Dalai Lama

  Buddhist, Responsibility, Our World

  Dalai Lama (2009). “For the Benefit of All Beings: A Commentary on the Way of the Bodhisattva”, p.23, Shambhala Publications

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• One must know not just how to accept a gift, but with what grace to share it.

  Maya Angelou

  Christmas, Thank You, Apology

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• Insist on yourself. Never imitate.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Encouragement, Monday

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.151, Harvard University Press

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• I see the horrible way some stars deal with other people, and I don't know how they get away with it. Maybe it comes back to them in a different karma.

  Emily Lloyd

  Stars, People, Different

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes".

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