quotations about karma
Dear Karma, I really hate you right now, you made your point.
OTTILIE WEBER
Family Ties
God does not deal our karma to us as a punishment. Karma is a manifestation of an impersonal law as well as a personal one. The purpose of our bearing our karma is that karma is our teacher. We must learn the lessons of how and why we misused the energy of life. Until that day comes when we recognize the Law of God as a Law of love, we will probably encounter difficulties. But if we will only hasten that day's coming into our own life, we will recognize that karma is actually grace and beauty and joy.
MARK L. PROPHET & ELIZABETH CLARE PROPHET
The Path to Attainment
Whereas negative karma is like a stormy sea that batters our boat from all sides, good karma is like the fair wind in our sails that effortlessly propels us forward.
ELIZABETH CLARE PROPHET & PATRICIA R. SPADARO
Karma and Reincarnation: Transcending Your Past, Transforming Your Future
The holistic doctrine of Karma gives us a reason for everything and everything for a reason. Karma, as a philosophy, maintains hope in the midst of hopelessness and provides us with the courage to continue our personal evolution.
JONN MUMFORD
Karma Manual
There is good Karma, there is bad Karma, and as the wheel of life moves on, old Karma is exhausted and again fresh Karma is accumulated. Although at first it may appear that nothing can be more fatalistic than this doctrine, yet a little consideration will show that in reality this is not the case. Karma is twofold, hidden and manifest, Karma is the man that is, Karma is his action. True that each action is a cause from which evolves the countless ramifications of effect in time and space.
WILLIAM Q. JUDGE
The Path, Sep. 1886
Karma is like an arrow which the archer has already discharged. It has left his hands. He cannot recall it. Therefore he must take the consequences of it.
DITTAKAVI SUBRAHMANYA SARMA
Essence of Hinduism
Karma is not simply the belief that everyone should get an equal taste of the hardships and enjoyments of life. It also has to do with cosmic punishment and reward for good and evil actions--but even this isn't the main point. A deeper purpose of karma is to give people the opportunity to develop spiritual mastery of the pains and pleasures involved with life. Once you come to terms with what life has to offer and grow to see things as they are, then you're ready to move on to a higher level of existence.
JAY STEVENSON
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Eastern Philosophy
I'm the caboose of the wrong doings you produce
The wild tail of the tornado running loose
You tie the noose, I kick the chair
I'm the cyanide that snatch your life when you gasp for air
The echo of the "Fuck you" that boomerangs to hurt your loved ones
The thief that took your son, held by ransom
The pervert that raped your wife
The hand that held the knife that took your life
You shot Tupac and Biggie
Now I'm coming after you like V-W-X-Y-Z
This is cause and effect, the domino effect
The "What goes up, must come down" effect
You hopin' though, that you had a hand in doin the doin
The conclusion of th evil that you ended and start pursuing
Ain't no running from
Karma, and no running
Ain't no running from
Karma, and no running
BLACK EYED PEAS
Karma
Though Karma is shaped by desires, it does not cease to exist when desires vanish.
SRIRANGA
The Quest for Wisdom
Something of the feeling expressed by the poet is experienced by every soul when it first realizes the depth and grandeur involved in the idea of Karma, or the law of Cause and Effect; for this is all that Karma is--the law, or the truth (law and truth are synonyms in nature) that each cause is inevitably followed by its appropriate effect. Our very familiarity with this law has blinded us to its majesty; we lightly assign it as an explanation for the most inscrutable mysteries, because it is such an absolutely necessary corollary to all we conceive of life or nature, without recognizing that it itself is beyond all comprehension. Yet it contains the beginning and the end of all philosophical speculation; it demonstrates a causal relation between the Infinite and the finite, for Karma is that Infinite Power which adjusts each effect to its originating cause.
JEROME A. ANDERSON
Karma: A Study of the Law of Cause and Effect
Karma is a key that we may use to organize our lives, rather than endlessly agonizing over the seemingly unexplainable and often unexpected events forming the fabric of our lives.... Karma is not about fate, fatalism, or destiny; nothing is pre-ordained--rather everything is a sequential happening emerging logically from antecedents. Karma is a way of viewing existence that brings about a harmony of both fatalism and free will, resulting in increased mental health and self-responsibility.
JONN MUMFORD
Karma Manual
Karma is God's girlfriend.
ALLAN WILLIAMS
Karma Is God's Girlfriend
Karma is like a voice recorder in an airplane, where in the results of all the actions and thoughts are recorded. If someone believes that he is doing an action unaware to anybody, he should always bear in mind that his actions are recorded in his karmic account.
V. RAVI
Vishnu Sahasranama
Karma is justice. It does not reward or punish. It shows no favoritism because we have to earn all that we receive. Karma doesn't predestine anyone or anything. We create our own causes, and karma adjusts the effects with perfect balance.
MARY T. BROWNE
The Power of Karma
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
Each Moment Is the Universe
Karma is like the fruit of a mango tree. The mango will yield the tree and the tree will yield the mango and the cycle continues.
NIRUBEN AMIN
The Science of Karma
Think about karma as a bank. The Karma Bank is an impartial, honorable, incorruptible, infallible solid establishment. Every single person in the whole universe has an account in this colossal depository. Each time you perform a positive action, you add good karma to your account. Every negative action that you perform produces bad karma. The ultimate goal is to have your account in perfect balance. When this is achieved, you will have mastered your karma.
MARY T. BROWNE
The Power of Karma
Karma exists, chickens do come home to roost, and as my mother, Phyllis, liked to say, "There is always a day of reckoning."
DONALD VAN DE MARK
The Good Among the Great
What brings the karmic result from the patterns of our actions is not our action alone. As we intend and then act, we create karma: so another key to understanding the creation of karma is becoming aware of intention. The heart is our garden, and along with each action there is an intention that is planted like a seed. The result of the patterns of our karma is the fruit of these seeds.
JACK KORNFIELD
A Path with Heart
Karma is often wrongly confused with the notion of a fixed destiny. It is more like an accumulation of tendencies that can lock us into particular behavior patterns, which themselves result in further accumulations of tendencies of a similar nature... But it is not necessary to be a prisoner of old karma.
JON KABAT-ZINN
Radiant Mind