quotations about karma
Karma is like a magnetic field: it is an invisible tendency that draws bad or good things to a person. Karma doesn't always effect the person who created the karma. The good and bad things can happen to someone near the person, someone who just happened to be in the way. The effect is like a field of karma that emanates from a person. Luck gets worse, or greater, the closer you get to that person.
BRIAN ST. CLAIRE-KING
Tibet
Karma is like a magnetic field: it is an invisible tendency that draws bad or good things to a person. Karma doesn't always effect the person who created the karma. The good and bad things can happen to someone near the person, someone who just happened to be in the way.
BRIAN ST. CLAIRE-KING
Tibet
The view that retiring from the world amounts to renouncing Karma is also wrong. Karma is not an overt act, it is the inner intention. When the desire to act exists, lack of overt activity is not Sanyasa but hypocrisy. The classification of Karma should be based not on the overt act, but on the doer's state of mind.
SRIRANGA
The Quest for Wisdom
Karma is a cruel mistress.
KELLEY YORK
Hushed
Karma is like the vine that gathers strength through uninterrupted years, and which fastens its tendrils so closely that it is as strong as the structure to which it adheres. There is no way to destroy its power except by the separation of the parts, these parts renew themselves in other forms of life, but the structure is freed when its root is destroyed.
WILLIAM Q. JUDGE
The Path, Sep. 1886
As no cause remains without its due effect from greatest to least, from a cosmic disturbance down to the movement of your hand, and as like produces like, Karma is that unseen and unknown law which adjusts wisely, intelligently, and equitably each effect to its cause, tracing the latter back to its producer.
H. P. BLAVATSKY
The Key to Theosophy
Bad karma is the spiritual debt one has accumulated for one's mistakes from all previous lives and this life. It includes killing, harming, taking advantage, cheating, stealing, and more. On Mother Earth, when you buy a house, you take out a mortgage from a bank. This mortgage is your debt to the bank. You pay every month for fifteen, twenty, or thirty years to clear your financial debt. In the spiritual realm, if you have bad karma, you may have to pay for many lifetimes to clear your spiritual debt.
ZHI GANG SHA
The Power of Soul
Karma is the universal law of cause and effect. You reap what you sow. You get what you earn. You are what you eat. If you give love, you get love. Revenge returns itself upon the avenger. What goes around comes around.
MARY T. BROWNE
The Power of Karma
As no cause remains without its due effect from greatest to least, from a cosmic disturbance down to the movement of your hand, and as like produces like, Karma is that unseen and unknown law which adjusts wisely, intelligently, and equitably each effect to its cause.
HELENA PETROVNA BLAVATSKY
The Key to Theosophy
Debts that must be paid ... that sums up the concept of karma. But I would add that karma is not a burden that you have to carry. It is also an opportunity to learn, a chance to practice love and forgiveness, a chance to learn lessons that are valuable to us. Karma offers us the chance to wipe our dirty slate clean, to erase the wrong doings of the past.
J. P. VASWANI
What Would You Like to Know about Karma