Best 923 quotes in «karma quotes» category

The yoga of selfless giving is easy for anyone to practice. The key is detachment. The spirit is unattachment to results.

Think excitement, talk excitement, act out excitement, and you are bound to become an excited person.

Think of a star. A star burns its very substance to give light to others. You need to be like a star.

This is a business that I have always had the last laugh in.It has nothing to do with acting, it has to do with good karma.

This is what Krishna says in the Bhagavad-Gita - Karma Yoga. If you can't avoid action, you might as well act.

This Law -- whether Conscious or Unconscious --predestines nothing and no one. It exists from and in Eternity, truly, for it is ETERNITY itself; and as such, since no act can be co-equal with eternity, it cannot be said to act, for it is ACTION itself...Karma creates nothing, nor does it design. It is man who plans and creates causes, and Karmic law adjusts the effects; which adjustment is not an act, but universal harmony, tending ever to resume its original position.

This misfortune you find is of your own manufacture.

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.

Though the names 'karma', 'yoga' and 'sannyasa' are different, the truth at the heart of both is the same.

Those who have not become enlightened will have to return to another, denser planet that is still involved with negativity, to work out their remaining karma.

To begin living like you've never lived before, begin living like you've never lived before.

Through yoga practice you can change the course of your life by purifying your karma. But to do that you must have an idea of where you've been and where you want to go.

Though we can't always see it at the time, if we look upon events with some perspective, we see things always happen for our best interests. We are always being guided in a way better than we know ourselves.

To be selfish, greedy and unwilling to help the needy gives rise to future starvation and clothlessness.

To encounter such a being is considered the ultimate karmic blessing in the sense that your life will be so configured that every single variant problematic karma will surface, which means you have the opportunity of passing through them all correctly, going over the ocean of the samsara and reaching nirvana yourself.

To go beyond karma you have to end the structure of self.

To genuinely discover your Spirit, stop talking, stop reading, and start listening to your heart.

To find Buddha, you have to see your nature. Whoever sees his nature is a Buddha. If you don't see your nature, invoking buddhas, reciting sutras, making offerings, and keeping precepts are all useless. Invoking buddhas results in good karma, reciting sutras results in a good memory, keeping precepts results in good rebirth, and making offerings results in future blessings-but no Buddha.

Vedanta teaches that consciousness is singular, all happenings are played out in one universal consciousness and there is no multiplicity of selves.

To the worldy man Karma is a stern Nemesis, to the spiritual man Karma unfolds itself in harmony with his highest aspirations.

Understand suffering is a part of my karma, otherwise you will spoil your future karma also.

Very often people give to others to control them and dominant them.

Too often in the west we fail to realize that even in eastern disciplines the spiritual life is not meant as an escape from the worldly life. There is karma to be fulfilled on earth, within the dharma of necessity.

True justice is to pay one time for every mistake we make.

We all have our own karma and so different teachers will be meaningful to different students.

We have a saying in Tibet: If a problem can be solved there is no use worrying about it. If it can't be solved, worrying will do no good.

We are inspired by the God that we see in others and suddenly we find ourselves changing. We find ourselves giving more. We find that our lives become rather amazingly beautiful.

We don't need to eat anyone who would run, swim, or fly away if he could.

We could be unhappy and discouraged for ourselves, but we're trying to be in a high vibratory state so we can be of service to others.

We define a world. We build a house, then after building the house we enter into it and we never leave it.

We have two choices in life: One is to fulfill ourselves. The other is to take the time and energy that we would utilize in fulfilling ourselves and use it to make others happy.

We're not aware of the joy of our own immortality. When we give to someone else it opens a doorway and gives us the vision to see those we give to are God. As we see this in others, suddenly we see it within ourselves.

We manage to swallow flesh only because we do not think of the cruel and sinful thing that we do. There are many crimes which are the creation of man himself, the wrongfulness of which is put down to their divergence from habit, custom, or tradition. But cruelty is not of these. It is a fundamental sin, and admits of no argument or nice distinctions. If only we do not allow our heart to grow callous, its protest against cruelty is always clearly heard; and yet we go on perpetrating cruelties easily, merrily, all of us - in fact, anyone who does not join in is dubbed a crank.

We may think of peace as the absence of war, that if the great powers would reduce their weapons arsenals, we could have peace. But if we look deeply into the weapons, we will see our own minds - our own prejudices, fears, and ignorance.

We must stop viewing ourselves as separate and disconnected from the rest of life, as if we are a special case and the laws of nature or karma do not apply to us.

We preceive that God is in all of those we give to.

We must bring light to as many people as possible. Who has time to indulge in self-pity or guilt? In advanced self-giving you have no time for this. You just push these emotions out.

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.

We see that love manifested normally in the soldier, in the parent, in the lover, and in the spiritual teacher.

We try to fulfill ourselves, even though our inner voice tells us to become all that we are - still, we run from it.

What a man must do is realize that his continued belief in the inferiority of women is going to produce a type of karma that is going to hold him back, and already has.

What goes around, comes around.

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

Whatever our destiny is, whatever our Karma is, if we simply accept the mercy of Guru, "Guru Kripa", it can completely liberate us from all of our previous Karmic bondage.

What motivates someone who's become wealthy to go out and work in the ghetto with those who are poor? What motivates one who has perfect health to go and work with the sick? If you understand - then you understand the root and cause of all existence.

What other people think of me is none of my business. One of the highest places you can get to is being independent of the good opinions of other people.

What we have done, the result of that comes to us whenever it comes, either today, tomorrow, hundred years later, hundred lives later, whatever, whatever. And so, it's our own karma. That is why that philosophy in every religion: Killing is sin. Killing is sin in every religion.

What you do affects your awareness field. When you do something selfless your attention feild is more clear, more lucid.

What you have done causes things to happen. Your situation in life now has been caused, is predicated upon, your previous actions. That is karma.

Whenever we just try to please ourselves, all we do is cover up another window in the little house we're stuck in.