#karma

To go from mortal to Buddha, you have to put an end to karma, nurture your awareness, and accept what life brings. ↗

— Bodhidharma

#awareness #brings #buddha #end #go

Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us. ↗

— Bodhidharma

#karma #our #regardless #us

When you plant a seed of love, it is you that blossoms. ↗

— Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati

#karma #karmic #love #meditation #personal-transformation

It was not uncommon for the children to be told they were being treated this way because it was their bad karma and they must have hurt a child in a past life. ↗

— Mary Garden

#because #being #child #children #his way

When someone has a strong intuitive connection, Buddhism suggests that it's because of karma, some past connection. ↗

— Richard Gere

#buddhism #connection #intuitive #karma #past

I don't know what religious people do. I kind of wished I'd been a Christian with the blind faith that God is doing the right thing. As a Buddhist, you feel like you have more control over the situation, and that you can change your karma. ↗

— Marcia Wallace

#blind #blind faith #buddhist #change #christian

Karma has been a pop culture term for ages. But really, what the heck is it? Karma is not an inviolate engine of cosmic punishment. Rather, it is a neutral sequence of acts, results, and consequences. Receiving misfortune does not necessarily indicate that one has committed evil. But it is a sufficient indicator of something else. And that something else can be anything, as long as it is a logical consequence of what has come before. Consider: if you fall into a well, you are not a bad person who deserves to suffer—you are merely someone who took a wrong step. Or someone who had one drink too many. Or got a head rush due to poor circulation. Or forgot to wear your glasses. Or— The reasons are plentiful, and all plausible. But the chain of cause and effect goes way, way back into the deepest hoariest recesses of your personal past. So never rule out retribution. But never expect it. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#cause-and-effect #consequences #debt #effect #justice

The institutions of human society treat us as parts of a machine. They assign us ranks and place considerable pressure upon us to fulfill defined roles. We need something to help us restore our lost and distorted humanity. Each of us has feelings that have been suppressed and have built up inside. There is a voiceless cry resting in the depths of our souls, waiting for expression. Art gives the soul's feelings voice and form. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#destiny #happiness #humanism #inspirational #karma

Manipulation, fueled with good intent, can be a blessing. But when used wickedly, it is the beginning of a magician's karmic calamity. ↗

— T.F. Hodge

#calamity #chaos #confusion #control #good-intentions

The sad thing is, I was discovering that you almost have to make a joke of being good to strangers. Up and down the country, these people doing their good deeds were doubtless being seen as slightly eccentric, when in reality and in an ideal world they should be deemed the most normal people of all. ↗

— Danny Wallace

#karma #inspirational