Karma Quotations

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.

When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.

The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.

Every action in our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.

Attachment and aversion are the root cause of karma, and karma originates from infatuation. Karma is the root cause of birth and death, and these are said to be the source of misery. None can escape the effect of their own past karma.

I would never disrespect any man, woman, chick or child out there. We're all the same. What goes around comes around, and karma kicks us all in the butt in the end of the day.

I believe that the Laws of Karma do not apply to show business, where good things happen to bad people on a fairly regular basis.

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.

I never kill insects. If I see ants or spiders in the room, I pick them up and take them outside. Karma is everything.

I have an appearance on a new TV show called 'Bar Karma' on Current TV. I had the most fun ever making this episode. I play someone with a multiple personality, and I think my fans will be surprised and get a real giggle out of it. It's a new model for TV in that it is interactive with the community.

I believe in karma, and I believe if you put out positive vibes to everybody, that's all you're going to get back.

There's a natural law of karma that vindictive people, who go out of their way to hurt others, will end up broke and alone.

Karma is not just about the troubles, but also about surmounting them.

Your karma should be good, and everything else will follow. Your good karma will always win over your bad luck.

I guess one of the ways that karma works is that it finds out what you are most afraid of and then makes that happen eventually.

Even though my first marriage broke up, I'd say that I've had two good marriages and two good men. I've been very lucky. I like to think it's karma because, in a relationship, I give 300 per cent. I'm straight with my men, and I like to think it comes back.

You and I have been physically given two hands and two legs and half-decent brains. Some people have not been born like that for a reason. The karma is working from another lifetime.

Most people are so busy knocking themselves out trying to do everything they think they should, they never get around to do what they want to do.

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.

Whether or not we believe in survival of consciousness after death, reincarnation, and karma, it has very serious implications for our behavior.

I don't have any reason to hate anybody; I believe in good karma and spreading good energy.

I believe in Karma. If the good is sown, the good is collected. When positive things are made, that returns well.

On one hand, we know that everything happens for a reason, and there are no mistakes or coincidences. On the other hand, we learn that we can never give up, knowing that with the right tools and energy, we can reverse any decree or karma. So, which is it? Let the Light decide, or never give up? The answer is: both.

I feel like I'm worried about my later years in life because I feel like I'm using up so much good karma right now. There's going to be some sort of karmic backlash somewhere down the road.

As long as karma exists, the world changes. There will always be karma to be taken care of.

Being vegan just gives you such great karma.

You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest.

I'm also married for the first time, and I have two kids. So there's some kind of good karma right now.

I try to be a good daughter, as I believe in karma and feel that how you are with your parents is directly proportionate to what you receive in your life. I am a big oneness follower, and our gurus have told us that if you want to achieve external happiness, you need to be happy internally. And your inner circle is your family.

I have this system where if I buy three or four new things, I give away three or four things. Sometimes, it's a very painful system, but shopping is even better when you know that someone else who needs it will be getting. Keep the clothing karma going, I say.

Being generous or doing things for others actually makes me feel good so I don't do it because I hope karma will come round and get me and I'll benefit from it.

But life inevitably throws us curve balls, unexpected circumstances that remind us to expect the unexpected. I've come to understand these curve balls are the beautiful unfolding of both karma and current.

I believe in luck and fate and I believe in karma, that the energy you put out in the world comes back to meet you.

I tentatively believe in a god. I was brought up in a fairly religious home. I think the world is compatible with reincarnation, karma, all that stuff.

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.

I'm probably my biggest critic. I worry that if you spend any quality time reveling in good things then karma will slap you upside the head, so I try to stay as even keel as I'm able.

If you give a good thing to the world, then over time your karma will be good, and you'll receive good.

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

I'm a true believer in karma. You get what you give, whether it's bad or good.

The conscious process is reflected in the imagination; the unconscious process is expressed as karma, the generation of actions divorced from thinking and alienated from feeling.

I had a rule that I had to go to bed before the sun came up. So I used to look up the sunrise times because I thought it would be bad karma to be going to bed as dawn was arriving.

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

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

I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine.

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.

Karma brings us ever back to rebirth, binds us to the wheel of births and deaths. Good Karma drags us back as relentlessly as bad, and the chain which is wrought out of our virtues holds as firmly and as closely as that forged from our vices.

As a writer, it's important to stay true to your story without giving a hoot about publishers, critics and readers. You should do your karma as an author the way you want to, and rest is up to God.

I try to live with the idea that karma is a very real thing. So I put out what I want to get back.

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.

All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.

Depending on which day, and how I am feeling on that day, I have a different favorite song on the album. One day it might be 'Karma', and other days it is 'Stay For A While'

Things don't just happen in this world of arising and passing away. We don't live in some kind of crazy, accidental universe. Things happen according to certain laws, laws of nature. Laws such as the law of karma, which teaches us that as a certain seed gets planted, so will that fruit be.

Everyone gets dumped and everyone gets hurt and there's karma to love in regards to what you've done to other people.

I believe in fate. Sometimes that means an old bearded guy sitting on a cloud and pulling the strings; sometimes it means random atoms swirling through a cheerless universe; sometimes it means everything being preordained thanks to your karma credit from your previous lives.

Problems or successes, they all are the results of our own actions. Karma. The philosophy of action is that no one else is the giver of peace or happiness. One's own karma, one's own actions are responsible to come to bring either happiness or success or whatever.

Karma, memory, and desire are just the software of the soul. It's conditioning that the soul undergoes in order to create experience. And it's a cycle. In most people, the cycle is a conditioned response. They do the same things over and over again.

I always wear my evil eye necklace to ward off bad karma. I always wear one to protect me.

Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.

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

Karma is experience, and experience creates memory, and memory creates imagination and desire, and desire creates karma again. If I buy a cup of coffee, that's karma. I now have that memory that might give me the potential desire for having cappuccino, and I walk into Starbucks, and there's karma all over again.

Life does not mean mere karma or mere bhakti or mere jnana.

Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.

If you aren't in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret.

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

All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.

The will is not free - it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect - but there is something behind the will which is free.

A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.

People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.

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.

You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back.

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.

One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.

The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.

Do I believe in reincarnation? Well, let's say that I believe in karma. I think you make your own karma.

In every conversation I've had - with housewives in Mumbai, with middle-class people, upper-class, in the slums - everyone says there is an underlying consciousness of karma. That people believe in karma - that what you're putting out is going to come back. If I do something to you, the energy of it is going to come back to me in the future.

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.

Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.

Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.

The person desirous of success and strength should perform good karma continuously.

And guys, if you exploit a girl, it will come back to get you. That's called 'karma.'

The past situation has just occurred and the future situation has not yet manifested itself so there is a gap between the two. This is basically the bardo (life between life) experience. [This is the place where your life is reviewed - where you get another chance to let life teach you and end the cycle of pain. -EM]

If there is such a thing as karma, let's hope that Sarah Palin comes back as a wolf being shot at from a plane.

What goes around comes back around.

The journey of Soul... by the lessons gained in the physical experience... it may take (its) place in the realms of soul activity in an infinite world among others that have passed through the various realms... which first called every soul and body into experience.

Since karma is meeting self, we acquire karma as we meet self in our many attitudes and emotions; when we serve in loving kindness and patience or hold resentful malicious thoughts What we do to our fellow man we do to our Maker our karma or problem is within self.

In the beginning all souls were as a unity to the God-Force. As self added or subtracted that which was in keeping with God's purpose, ye added or subtracted from the blessings ye might be conscious of in materiality. Thus karma is builded. And the law is perfect - what ye sow, ye reap.

Destiny, or karma, depends upon what the soul has done about what it has become aware of.

I'm not a believer in predetermined fates, being rewarded for one's efforts. I'm not a believer in karma. The reason why I try to be a good person is because I think it's the right thing to do. If I commit fewer bad acts there will be fewer bad acts, maybe other people will join in committing fewer bad acts, and in time there will be fewer and fewer of them.

I had never been able to believe that God would give us poor frail humans only one chance at making it -- that we would be assigned to some kind of hell because we failed during one experience of mortal life. ... So the concepts of karma and reincarnation made logical sense to me.

Your task is not to judge or punish. Karma will take care of that. Your task is to love.

But this was what happened when you didn't want to visit and confront the past: the past starts visiting and confronting you.

Karma chameleon: we come and go, we come and go...

Join the bold, the brazen, the unintimidated. Join not having excuses. Join the idea that fun is the source of all joy. Join the unwillingness to give up. Join doing things your way. Join not joining. Join that purpose is stronger than outcome. Join your gut. Join the constant challenge of seeking greatness. Join play. Join the hunger to find what makes you happy. Join karma and nature and the effect you have on your world. Join your philosophy. Join something bigger than you. Join what you believe.

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.

A buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad. Such is his power that karma can't hold him. No matter what kind of karma, a buddha transforms it. Heaven and hell are nothing to him. But the awareness of a mortal is dim compared to that of a buddha, who penetrates everything, inside and out.

Unless you see your nature, you shouldn't go around criticizing the goodness of others. There's no advantage in deceiving yourself. Good and bad are distinct. Cause and effect are clear. But fools don't believe and fall straight into a hell of endless darkness without even knowing it. What keeps them from believing is the heaviness of their karma. They're like blind people who don't believe there's such a thing as light. Even if you explain it to them, they still don't believe, because they're blind. How can they possibly distinguish light?