Karma Quotes - Page 29

• I may discuss contemporary cinema, how to shop at a mall without losing energy, how to use the power of mind to increase career and academic success, the Zen of sports, reincarnation, karma, sex, the experience of "suchness" or a new book by Stephen King.

  Frederick Lenz

  Sports, Sex, Kings

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• Just as an age was ready to receive the Copernican theory of the universe, so is our own age ready for the ideas of reincarnation and karma to be brought into the general consciousness of humanity. And what is destined to happen in the course of evolution will happen no matter what powers rise up against it.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Ideas, Humanity, Age

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• There are the samskaras, the tendencies from your other lifetimes, ways of seeing, habits that are so strong, they affect you now. They are the operative situations in your life that are created by karma.

  Frederick Lenz

  Strong, Way, Lifetime

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• Whatever our destiny is, whatever our Karma is, if we simply accept the mercy of Guru, "Guru Kripa", it can completely liberate us from all of our previous Karmic bondage.

  Radhanath Swami

  Spiritual, Destiny, Mercy

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• Sometimes, after you have taken part in a seven, one or two-day retreat, you could feel that your level of practice had risen. That was because we had given our undivided attention to breaking through our level of practice. We knew that was the sole purpose of coming to a retreat here, so our levels were uplifted and our karma left behind.

  Ching Hai

  Spiritual, Taken, Inspiration

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• From a Buddhist point of view, the actual experience of death is very important. Although how or where we will be reborn is generally dependent on karmic forces, our state of mind at the time of death can influence the quality of our next rebirth. So at the moment of death, in spite of the great variety of karmas we have accumulated, if we make a special effort to generate a virtuous state of mind, we may strengthen and activate a virtuous karma, and so bring about a happy rebirth.

  Dalai Lama

  Death, Buddhist, Views

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• At every moment in our lives we need compassion, but what more urgent moment could there be than when we are dying? What more wonderful and consoling gift could you give to dying people than the knowledge that they are being prayed for, and that you are taking on their suffering and purifying their negative karma through your practice for them?

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Death, Compassion, Practice

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• Karma is not fate, for man acts with free will, creating his own destiny. The Vedas tell us, if we sow goodness, we will reap goodness; if we sow evil, we will reap evil. Karma refers to the totality of our actions and their concomitant reactions in this and previous lives, all of which determines our future.

  Sivaya Subramuniyaswami

  Fate, Destiny, Men

  Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami (2003). “Dancing with Siva: Hinduism's Contemporary Catechism”, p.38, Himalayan Academy Publications

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• Only man makes Karma.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Men, Human Beings

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Vivekananda Reader”, p.183, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

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• Karma exists within causality. It is three-dimensional. Free will exists outside of causality; it is not bound by karma.

  Frederick Lenz

  Three, Causality, Free Will

  Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

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• If there wasn't a way around the samskaras, no one would ever become enlightened.

  Frederick Lenz

  Way, Enlightened, Samskara

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• If you choose to draw from the inner well of free will, then you can make choices that are outside your current karmic patterns.

  Frederick Lenz

  Choices, Patterns, Free Will

  Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

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• If we're distracted from the continual flow of perfect mind that we're in, suddenly everything configures, everything solidifies. Suddenly a shape appears out of flux, a world appears, karmas appear, pasts, futures, presents, time structures, ying and yang appear.

  Frederick Lenz

  Past, Perfect, Mind

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• I'm not a philosopher, Harry," [Michael] said. "But here's something for you to think about, at least. What goes around comes around. And sometimes you get what's coming around." He paused for a moment, frowning faintly, pursing his lips. "And sometimes you are what's coming around.

  Jim Butcher

  Thinking, Frowning, Lips

  Jim Butcher (2008). “Grave Peril: Book three of The Dresden Files”, p.270, Penguin

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• It was karma, it was kismet, it was magic. It doesn't matter how it happened, just that it did.

  Shannon Hale

  Magic, Matter, Kismet

  Shannon Hale (2009). “The Actor and the Housewife: A Novel”, p.336, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Can you play the piano like Beethoven? Or sing like Carly Simon? Can you take fie pages' worth of quotes and turn them into a usable story ten minutes before deadline? I don't think so, unless you have more hidden talents I don't know about. We all have our special sills. They don't make us better or worse than each other. Just different

  Jennifer Estep

  Thinking, Piano, Play

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• The Chinese say that you should never, ever buy a used desk unless you know the history of it. They claim that if it belonged to a bad businessman, his karma will befall you. This one here belonged to President Kennedy. So what do you think that means? (Randy) I don’t know, but if I were you, I wouldn’t ride through Dallas in a convertible in November. Bad feng shui. (Steele)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Mean, Thinking, Chinese

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2005). “Bad Attitude”, p.149, Simon and Schuster

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• Someone please tell me that we’re not seriously having a friggin’ debate over the genius of ‘Karma Chameleon’ at seven o’clock in the morning? (Xypher)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Morning, Genius, Debate

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2008). “Dream Chaser”, p.193, Macmillan

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• I believe that my life's gonna see the love I give returned to me.

  John Mayer

  Believe, Giving, I Believe

  Song: Wheel, Album: Heavier Things

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• Man peoples his current living space with a world of his own, crowded with the offspring of his fancies, desires, impulses, and passions.

  Annie Besant

  Passion, Men, Space

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• And guys, if you exploit a girl, it will come back to get you. That's called 'karma.'

  Bill O'Reilly

  Girl, Guy, Exploits

  ""The O'Reilly Factor for Kids: A Survival Guide for America's Families"". Book by Bill O'Reilly, 2004.

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• There is no argument so cogent not only in demonstrating, the indestructibility of the soul, but also in showing that it always preserves in its nature traces of all its preceding states with a practical remembrance which can always be aroused. Since it has the consciousness of or knows in itself what each one calls his me. This renders it open to moral qualities, to chastisement and to recompense even after this life, for immortality without remembrance would be of no value.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Remembrance, Soul, Quality

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• Karma grows from our hearts. Karma terminates from our hearts.

  Gautama Buddha

  Heart, Discipline, Common Sense

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• If the soul be pure, then shall she obtain favor and rejoice in the latter day; but if she hath been defiled, then shall she wander for a time in pain and despair.

  Josephus

  Pain, Soul, Despair

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• The past situation has just occurred and the future situation has not yet manifested itself so there is a gap between the two. This is basically the bardo (life between life) experience. [This is the place where your life is reviewed - where you get another chance to let life teach you and end the cycle of pain. -EM]

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Pain, Past, Two

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