Karma Quotes - Page 17

• Those who pursue a worldy life - who try to get others to do what they want, to peform for them, who use and abuse in the name of their own happiness - are miserable.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Names, Abuse

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

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Really Happy, Karma Yoga

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• 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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• The best mantrum is selfless giving beause as you repeat it again and again, you change.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Selfless Giving, Again And Again

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• 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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• 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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• 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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• No doubt, God alone has become all these objects, animate and inanimate, but in the relative world all beings act and suffer according to their past Karma and innate tendencies.

  Sarada Devi

  Past, Doubt, Suffering

  "Sri Sarada Devi, the Holy Mother; Life and Conversations" by Swami Tapasyananda, Swami Nikhilananda, (p. 361), 2004.

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• Feeling "comfortable" is the short path to annihilation.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Feelings, Path

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• We see the one light, the one unified reality that we see in others, is the same reality that is within ourselves. We are one with all of existence.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Reality, Light

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• I believe that time wounds all heals. (karma)

  John Lennon

  Believe, Heal, Wounds

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• I am the owner of my actions, heir to my actions, born of my actions, related through my actions, and have my actions as my arbitrator. Whatever I do, for good or for evil, to that I will fall heir.

  Gautama Buddha

  Fall, Evil, Heirs

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• There are patterns which emerge in one's life, circling and returning anew, an endless variation on a theme. So musicians say the greatest sonatas are composed; whether or not it is true, I do not know, but of a surety I have seen it emerge in the tapestry of my life.

  Jacqueline Carey

  Patterns, Musician, Variation

  Jacqueline Carey (2003). “Kushiel's Chosen: A Novel”, p.49, Macmillan

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• Let the punishment match the offense.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Forgiveness, Punishment, Offense

  De Legibus bk. 3, ch. 20

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• If there is such a thing as karma, let's hope that Sarah Palin comes back as a wolf being shot at from a plane.

  Bill Maher

  Shots, Planes, Palin

  "Real Time with Bill Maher", October 17, 2008.

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• If your life is based around your being comfortable, you're not very comfortable. You suffer quite a bit - becuase in the realm of the senses there is not only pleasure, but there is pain.

  Frederick Lenz

  Pain, Yoga, Suffering

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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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• Krishna says, fight. He says, go out in the battlefield and kill those people whom it's your job to kill.

  Frederick Lenz

  Jobs, Yoga, Fighting

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• Karma means changing planes of reality or changing fields of attention. There will be perhaps a resulting physical action stemming from the change of these fields of attention.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mean, Reality, Attention

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• Karma is not a receipt of a physical experience, because of what someone has done.

  Frederick Lenz

  Done, Receipts

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• There is a popular conception about karma, and that is that as you sow, so shall you reap. That's only true if you're a farmer.

  Frederick Lenz

  Farmers, Reap, Conception

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• You are new at every moment. You are an extension of the previous moment of your awareness. You can radically change, if you unhook yourself from what you have been.

  Frederick Lenz

  Moments, Awareness, Extensions

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