Karma Quotes - Page 18

• 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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• 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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• One day after many, many lifetimes, we get wise. We decide that the fun in life is to give.

  Frederick Lenz

  Wise, Fun, 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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• 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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• Selfless giving changes our concept of our identity. When we give to others our unselfishness removes the spot of "self" that stained our awareness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Self, Giving

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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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• It's a civil war, and Arjuna knows a lot of people who are on the opposite side of the battlefield - they've been his friends.

  Frederick Lenz

  War, Yoga, Opposites

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• Suddenly they have to face each other down - you've got to kill your friends.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Faces, Karma Yoga

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• Arjuna is a warrior of great renown, says he won't fight. He tells Krishna: I can't fight because I love these people. It's immoral. It's unjust. There's no winning.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Fighting, Warrior

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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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• 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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• 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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• Buddhists understand that today and all other days have turned out the way they have because of karma. The interconnection of one moment with another moment, of one action with another action, is karma.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Today, Way

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

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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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• If you work an extra ten hours to help spread the dharma, this will cause for much faster progression. You're doing something for a higher cause, for a higher ideal.

  Frederick Lenz

  Causes, Helping, Hours

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