Everywhere you go, you hear people say that Karma will get them, or karma will come back around, or don’t worry, their karma will catch up. But what IS karma?
Web definitions of Karma
- (Hinduism and Buddhism) the effects of a person’s actions that determine his destiny in his next incarnation
- Karma (कर्म ; kamma) in Indian religions is the concept of “action” or “deed”, understood as that which causes the entire cycle of cause and effect (i.e., the cycle called saṃsāra) originating in ancient India and treated in Hindu, Jain, Buddhist and Sikh philosophies.
Here are some excellent Karmic quotes by some famous thinkers to get your own mind going on what you believe comes to you…or to others. Make sure you pass on just in case there are others that have their “karma coming to them” and they can start thinking about it now!
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Quotes on Karma
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Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.
~Wayne Dyer
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Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.
Wayne Dyer
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When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.
~Wayne Dyer
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The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don’t know anything about.
~Wayne Dyer
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You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back.
~Wayne Dyer
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Our life is what our thoughts make it.
~Marcus Aurelius
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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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Luck is a word devoid of sense. Nothing can exist without a cause.
~Voltaire
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We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold in them.
~Elbert Hubbard
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Act so as to elicit the best in others and thereby in thyself.
Felix Adler
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Doubt breeds doubt.
~Franz Grillparzer
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We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.
~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of becoming a prophet.
~Isaac Bashevis
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Realize that everything connects to everything else.
Leonardo DaVinci
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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
~Philo
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The point is to create a system where individuals don’t work simply for money or personal gain but to support the planet and its inhabitants in entering the next stage of evolutionary progression.
~Michael Bernard Beckwith
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Contrary to popular misconception, karma has nothing to do with punishment and reward. It exists as part of our holographic universe’s binary or dualistic operating system only to teach us responsibility for our creations-and all things we experience are our creations.
~Sol Luckman
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Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.
~Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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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
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My karma ran over your dogma.
~Author Unknown
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As the blazing fire reduces wood to ashes, similarly, the fire of Self-knowledge reduces all Karma to ashes.
~Bhagavad Gita
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One should, perform karma with nonchalance without expecting the benefits because sooner or later one shall definitely gets the fruits.
~ Rig Veda
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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
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Whatever pleases You is a pure action of karma.
~Sri Guru Granth Sahib
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Do you have a favorite Karma Quote?
~Trisha
