I don't feel the need for religion. But I went on a yoga retreat last year and I do believe slightly in the karma thing and just being good and true unto yourself. And I slightly believe that you can attract good and bad to you.
It's not about how to achieve your dreams, it's about how to lead your life,. . . If you lead your life the right way, the karma will take care of itself, the dreams will come to you.
The virtues we acquire, which develop slowly within us, are the invisible links that bind each one of our existences to the others - existences which the spirit alone remembers, for Matter has no memory for spiritual things.
Through the deeply theraputic practice of asana, we begin to purify our karmas, thereby healing our past relationships with others and reestablishing a steady and joyful connection with the Earth, which means all beings.
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about.
I'm pessimistic about the future of the planet. These big guys don't realize for everything they do, there's a reaction. You have to pay. That's karma.
We define a world. We build a house, then after building the house we enter into it and we never leave it.
As a yoga practitioner with some understanding of how karma works, you have to ask the question, "If I am seeking liberation, will it serve my purpose to rob other beings of their freedom?"
Success will come about because you are in a higher state of mind. If you create good karma, then you will go into higher states of mind.
I don't miss another opportunity to try to do my best to finish the things I have left undone. I could say: It's my unresolved karma that wakes me up in the morning.
Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.
Strange things conspire when one tries to cheat fate
Suddenly they have to face each other down - you've got to kill your friends.
Even a good self will create another good self in the next life, and another one, and that good self will never be enlightened. You'll be bound, life after life, by good karma.
If you choose to draw from the inner well of free will, then you can make choices that are outside your current karmic patterns.
Karma means ultimate responsibility. You even take responsibility for your genetics.
Failing at something is one thing, but Buddhism tells us that it is up to us how we interpret that failure [Buddhism] a philosophy and way of life that resonates with me I identify with it. I agree with so much of the sentiment behind it. I enjoy the liberating effect it's had on me to get back into the game Buddhism, with its concepts of karma and rebirth, have freed me from the twin fears of death and life without rugby, like life, will also come to an end.
Yet through all, we know this tangled skein is in the hands of One, Who sees the end from the beginning: He shall unravel all.
When we cross the gates of death, our karma is all we take with us. Everything else that we enjoyed in this life we leave behind. . . Our karma is the only thing that will count in determining our rebirth, for our next life is nothing but the effects of our karmic tendencies that materialize in our perception.
Arjuna, who is the fearless waririor in the story is a very wordly indvidual, we assume with high past lives.