Saturday, October 15, 2011

Quotations about Karma

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours. ~Wayne Dyer


My actions are my only true belongings. I cannot escape the consequences of my actions. My actions are the ground upon which I stand. ~Thich Nhat Hanh


According to the karma of past actions, one's destiny unfolds, even though everyone wants to be so lucky. ~Sri Guru Granth Sahib


Worthless people blame their karma. ~Burmese Proverb


As she has planted, so does she harvest; such is the field of karma. ~Sri Guru Granth Sahib


Men are not punished for their sins, but by them. ~Elbert Hubbard


Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny. ~Tryon Edwards


There are the waves and there is the wind, seen and unseen forces. Everyone has these same elements in their lives, the seen and unseen, karma and free will. ~Kuan Yin


Whatever we do lays a seed in our deepest consciousness, and one day that seed will grow. ~Sakyong Mipham


Like gravity, karma is so basic we often don't even notice it. ~Sakyong Mipham


Before you begin on the journey of revenge, dig two graves. ~Proverb


O youth or young man, who fancy that you are neglected by the gods, know that if you become worse, you shall go to worse souls, or if better to the better… In every succession of life and death, you will do and suffer what like may fitly suffer at the hands of like. This is the justice of heaven. ~Plato


Our deeds determine us as much as we determine our deeds. ~George Eliot


There is a destiny that makes us brothers: none goes his way alone,
All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own.
~Edwin Markham


Sin makes its own hell, and goodness its own heaven. ~Mary Baker Eddy


Thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges. ~William Shakespeare


Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity. ~Edwin Hubbel Chapin


Belief in karma ought to make the life pure, strong, serene, and glad. Only our own deeds can hinder us; only our own will can fetter us. Once let men recognize this truth, and the hour of their liberation has struck. Nature cannot enslave the soul that by wisdom has gained power and uses both in love. ~Annie Besant


My karma ran over your dogma. ~Author Unknown


As the blazing fire reduces wood to ashes, similarly, the fire of Self-knowledge reduces all Karma to ashes. ~Bhagavad Gita


Those who were pre-ordained to have no good karma at all - gazing into the lamp of emotional attachment, they are burnt, like moths in a flame. ~Sri Guru Granth Sahib


If a householder moulds himself according to the circumstances just like nature moulds Herself according to seasons and performs his Karma then only shall he acquire happiness. ~Rig Veda


Without the karma of good deeds, they are only destroying themselves. ~Sri Guru Granth Sahib


Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein. ~Proverb


The cool thing about free will is that even if one has a huge bag of karma there is still a lot of free will for all those souls coming into the world. ~Kuan Yin


Men may not get all they pay for in this world; but they must certainly pay for all they get. ~Frederick Douglas


People pay for what they do, and still more, for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it simply: by the lives they lead. ~Edith Wharton

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