Karma is not a receipt of a physical experience, because of what someone has done.
I was shocked when they told me congratulations, you won, that's the good news. Then the bad news is that you have six battles next week. That was a bit of a shocker. I was exhausted. And I had Chopped shooting that same week. I didn't have a sous chef lined up; I thought that was bad karma to try to think ahead. So I scrambled. I scrambled the jets, took off and we bombed our target. I think it's gone well.
Culture is an elevated expression of the inner voice which the different peoples of the Earth have heard in the depths of their being, a voice which conveys the vibrant compassion and wisdom of the cosmic life. For different cultures to engage in interaction is to catalyze each other's souls and foster mutual understanding.
Now everything that you do is written in red or black in Angel Gabriel's book. Not for everyone is this record kept, but only for those who have taken a position of responsibility. There is a Law of Sins, and if you do not fulfil all your obligations, you will pay.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
. . . the counsels of the Divine Mind had some glimpse of truth when they said that men are born in order to suffer the penalty for sins committed in a former life.
If your motives are high and noble and your work is hard and you do a good job, then whatever the task is in your life, it will benefit you.
One's knowledge of karma should not be used to judge others. You should ask yourself: Do I like where I am going, or do I want to change my direction?
They have no business administering government policies in a country that favors freedom and equality. . . . Can you imagine having the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini as defense minister, or Mahatma Gandhi as minister of health, education, and welfare The Hindu and Buddhist idea of karma and the Muslim idea of kismet, or fate condemn the poor and the disabled to their suffering. . . . It's the will of Allah. These beliefs are nothing but abject fatalism, and they would devastate the social gains this nation has made if they were ever put into practice.
When wealth is centralized, the people are dispersed. When wealth is distributed, the people are brought together.
Every action generates a force of energy that returns to us in like kind. . . what we sow is what we reap. And when we choose actions that bring happiness and success to others, the fruit of our karma is happiness and success.
You cannot fail unless you quit.
Meditation is the ultimate selfless act, because when you meditate you are sacrificing your puny personality for the universal reality.
If you just live totally, you will dissolve lots of karma. Living totally means that you experience anything that comes fully and intensely.
Your states of mind do not occur randomly. They occur because of vibratory and karmic patterns.
You don't understand. I only prostitute the part of the body that isn't important, and nobody suffers except my karma a little bit. I don't do big harm. You prostitute your mind. Mind is seat of Buddha. What you do is very very bad. You should not use your mind in that way
No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.
Do I believe in reincarnation? Well, let's say that I believe in karma. I think you make your own karma.
See karma, make dharma
Everything that exists in this or any other world or dimension, does so because of the way that things were in the previous moment. I call this the karma of moment.