karma

Link	Quote	Tags	Author
271e2ab	When you see a good person, think of becoming like her/him. When you see someone not so good, reflect on your own weak points.	helpful karma inspirational self-improvement introspection	Confucius
eef149b	Even if things don't unfold the way you expected, don't be disheartened or give up. One who continues to advance will win in the end.	karma self-reformation humanism destiny happiness inspirational buddhism peace	Daisaku Ikeda
757c081	it is impossible to build one's own happiness on the unhappiness of others. This perspective is at the heart of Buddhist teachings.	karma self-reformation humanism destiny happiness inspirational buddhism peace	Daisaku Ikeda
c84bcc0	Life is painful. It has thorns, like the stem of a rose. Culture and art are the roses that bloom on the stem. The flower is yourself, your humanity. Art is the liberation of the humanity inside yourself.	karma self-reformation humanism destiny happiness inspirational buddhism peace	Daisaku Ikeda
2519c41	Not only is there often a right and wrong, but what goes around does come around, Karma exists, chickens do come home to roost, and as my mother, Phyllis, liked to say, "There is always a day of reckoning." The good among the great understand that every choice we make adds to the strength or weakness of our spirits--ourselves, or to use an old fashioned word for the same idea, our souls. That is every human's life work: to construct an identity bit by bit, to walk a path step by step, to live a life that is worthy of something higher, lighter, more fulfilling, and maybe even everlasting.	psychology-spirituality karma meaning inspiration inspirational-quotes identity life-lessons inspirational ethical fulfillment personal-development meaning-of-life ethics psychology	Donald Van de Mark
f68bea8	Oh Lestat, you deserved everything that's ever happened to you. You better not die. You might actually go to hell.	karma death deserved louis lestat lestat-de-lioncourt remorse punishment vampire hell	Anne Rice
8faf4ce	A great human revolution in just a single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a nation and, further, can even enable a change in the destiny of all humankind.	absolute-happiness karma self-reformation humanism destiny inspirational buddhism peace	Daisaku Ikeda
9c756eb	But this was what happened when you didn't want to visit and confront the past: the past starts visiting and confronting you.	karma past	Bret Easton Ellis
8cb75ef	The institutions of human society treat us as parts of a machine. They assign us ranks and place considerable pressure upon us to fulfill defined roles. We need something to help us restore our lost and distorted humanity. Each of us has feelings that have been suppressed and have built up inside. There is a voiceless cry resting in the depths of our souls, waiting for expression. Art gives the soul's feelings voice and form.	karma self-reformation humanism destiny happiness inspirational buddhism peace	Daisaku Ikeda
d1a167e	Strange things conspire when one tries to cheat fate	karma	Rick Riordan
12c6b6e	"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."	karma	Jim Butcher
22b8b48	Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port.	responsibility karma pay-it-forward spiritual-guidance reciprocity consequences	Iris Murdoch
f4eeb39	I convinced myself that everything was going to be okay. This is what happens when you believe in in hope. Karma comes around and destroy it.	karma hope	Katie McGarry
9c64de2	And then a memory from Avalon surfaced in her mind, something she had not thought of for a decade; one of the Druids, giving instruction in the secret wisdom to the young priestesses, had said, If you would have the message of the Gods to direct your life, look for that which repeats, again and again; for this is the message given you by the Gods, the karmic lesson you must learn for this incarnation. It comes again and again until you have made it part of your soul and your enduring spirit.	karma meaning life	Marion Zimmer Bradley
bff0bb4	Fathers, provoke not your children to wrath.	karma wrath parenthood	Fyodor Dostoyevsky
c6adf91	Can't you see there's a determinism about the fate of nations? They all seem to get what they deserve in the long run.	fate karma history politics geopolitics just-desserts nations determinism	Malcolm Lowry
f38b8a9	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 is is not necessary to be a prisoner of old karma.	karma destiny buddhism	Jon Kabat-Zinn
d2a0e28	...we lay there in the dark for a split second before the beast galumphed toward us. Meabh, always quick with a sword, sprang to her feet and charged the dragon head-on while I mostly just wondered who or what I'd offended in a past life that this one was peopled by dragons. Except I didn't have any past lives, so apparently I'd offended somebody in life and was facing instant karma. That didn't really improve anything, in my ever so humble opinion.	karma past-lives	C.E. Murphy
3a823a8	He believed that every individual was responsible for his conduct on earth, that there was a judge within. Could even a blazingly Christ inflict greater retribution? Could Dante's Charon in his rowboat on the river Acheron whip the miscreants into a deeper, more everlasting hell than man's unvarnished verdict of himself?	karma behavior ethics punishment	Irving Stone
06ae49b	"My funeral," the Blue Man said. "Look at the mourners. Some did not even know me well, yet they came. Why? Did you ever wonder? Why people gather when others die? Why people feel they should? "It is because the human spirit knows, deep down, that all lives intersect. That death doesn't just take someone, it misses someone else, and in the small distance between being taken and being missed, lives are changed. "You say you should have died instead of me. But during my time on earth, people died instead of me, too. It happens every day. When lightning strikes a minute after you are gone, or an airplane crashes that you might have been on. When your colleague falls ill and you do not. We think such things are random. But there is a balance to it all. One withers, another grows. Birth and death are part of a whole. "It is why we are drawn to babies . . ." He turned to the mourners. "And to funerals."	marriage karma spirit death life love connected cycle we-are-one birth funeral	Mitch Albom

271e2ab

When you see a good person, think of becoming like her/him. When you see someone not so good, reflect on your own weak points.

helpful karma inspirational self-improvement introspection

Confucius

eef149b

Even if things don't unfold the way you expected, don't be disheartened or give up. One who continues to advance will win in the end.

karma self-reformation humanism destiny happiness inspirational buddhism peace

Daisaku Ikeda

757c081

it is impossible to build one's own happiness on the unhappiness of others. This perspective is at the heart of Buddhist teachings.

karma self-reformation humanism destiny happiness inspirational buddhism peace

Daisaku Ikeda

c84bcc0

Life is painful. It has thorns, like the stem of a rose. Culture and art are the roses that bloom on the stem. The flower is yourself, your humanity. Art is the liberation of the humanity inside yourself.

karma self-reformation humanism destiny happiness inspirational buddhism peace

Daisaku Ikeda

2519c41

Not only is there often a right and wrong, but what goes around does come around, Karma exists, chickens do come home to roost, and as my mother, Phyllis, liked to say, "There is always a day of reckoning." The good among the great understand that every choice we make adds to the strength or weakness of our spirits--ourselves, or to use an old fashioned word for the same idea, our souls. That is every human's life work: to construct an identity bit by bit, to walk a path step by step, to live a life that is worthy of something higher, lighter, more fulfilling, and maybe even everlasting.

psychology-spirituality karma meaning inspiration inspirational-quotes identity life-lessons inspirational ethical fulfillment personal-development meaning-of-life ethics psychology

Donald Van de Mark

f68bea8

Oh Lestat, you deserved everything that's ever happened to you. You better not die. You might actually go to hell.

karma death deserved louis lestat lestat-de-lioncourt remorse punishment vampire hell

Anne Rice

8faf4ce

A great human revolution in just a single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a nation and, further, can even enable a change in the destiny of all humankind.

absolute-happiness karma self-reformation humanism destiny inspirational buddhism peace

Daisaku Ikeda

9c756eb

But this was what happened when you didn't want to visit and confront the past: the past starts visiting and confronting you.

karma past

Bret Easton Ellis

8cb75ef

The institutions of human society treat us as parts of a machine. They assign us ranks and place considerable pressure upon us to fulfill defined roles. We need something to help us restore our lost and distorted humanity. Each of us has feelings that have been suppressed and have built up inside. There is a voiceless cry resting in the depths of our souls, waiting for expression. Art gives the soul's feelings voice and form.

karma self-reformation humanism destiny happiness inspirational buddhism peace

Daisaku Ikeda

d1a167e

Strange things conspire when one tries to cheat fate

karma

Rick Riordan

12c6b6e

"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."

karma

Jim Butcher

22b8b48

Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port.

responsibility karma pay-it-forward spiritual-guidance reciprocity consequences

Iris Murdoch

f4eeb39

I convinced myself that everything was going to be okay. This is what happens when you believe in in hope. Karma comes around and destroy it.

karma hope

Katie McGarry

9c64de2

And then a memory from Avalon surfaced in her mind, something she had not thought of for a decade; one of the Druids, giving instruction in the secret wisdom to the young priestesses, had said, If you would have the message of the Gods to direct your life, look for that which repeats, again and again; for this is the message given you by the Gods, the karmic lesson you must learn for this incarnation. It comes again and again until you have made it part of your soul and your enduring spirit.

karma meaning life

Marion Zimmer Bradley

bff0bb4

Fathers, provoke not your children to wrath.

karma wrath parenthood

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

c6adf91

Can't you see there's a determinism about the fate of nations? They all seem to get what they deserve in the long run.

fate karma history politics geopolitics just-desserts nations determinism

Malcolm Lowry

f38b8a9

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 is is not necessary to be a prisoner of old karma.

karma destiny buddhism

Jon Kabat-Zinn

d2a0e28

...we lay there in the dark for a split second before the beast galumphed toward us. Meabh, always quick with a sword, sprang to her feet and charged the dragon head-on while I mostly just wondered who or what I'd offended in a past life that this one was peopled by dragons. Except I didn't have any past lives, so apparently I'd offended somebody in life and was facing instant karma. That didn't really improve anything, in my ever so humble opinion.

karma past-lives

C.E. Murphy

3a823a8

He believed that every individual was responsible for his conduct on earth, that there was a judge within. Could even a blazingly Christ inflict greater retribution? Could Dante's Charon in his rowboat on the river Acheron whip the miscreants into a deeper, more everlasting hell than man's unvarnished verdict of himself?

karma behavior ethics punishment

Irving Stone

06ae49b

"My funeral," the Blue Man said. "Look at the mourners. Some did not even know me well, yet they came. Why? Did you ever wonder? Why people gather when others die? Why people feel they should? "It is because the human spirit knows, deep down, that all lives intersect. That death doesn't just take someone, it misses someone else, and in the small distance between being taken and being missed, lives are changed. "You say you should have died instead of me. But during my time on earth, people died instead of me, too. It happens every day. When lightning strikes a minute after you are gone, or an airplane crashes that you might have been on. When your colleague falls ill and you do not. We think such things are random. But there is a balance to it all. One withers, another grows. Birth and death are part of a whole. "It is why we are drawn to babies . . ." He turned to the mourners. "And to funerals."

marriage karma spirit death life love connected cycle we-are-one birth funeral

Mitch Albom