Quotes #2: Trail of Diamonds in the Sand: Famous Quotes on Karma We are All Karma Chameleons More people in the world believe in karma than do not. Unfortunately, for those of us who live here, most people in the United States of America do not. Yet, just in case, you believe that the only people who believe in the principles of karma and reincarnation live in the East, below are quotes from famous Westerners to show that "you are not alone". Of course, to balance my karma, there are quotes from famous Easterners. For after all, most Easterners believe very firmly in the concepts of reincarnation and karma. Trail of Diamonds in the Sand Like a trail of diamonds in the sand, these quotes reveal the truth of our existence. For as we journey through life, we learn tolerance. For we have been and will be all things... If you have any quotes to share about reincarnation, karma, or past lives, I invite you to send them to me so that I can share them here. Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Karma:
Wisdom of the West: The Bible - New Testament & the Teachings of Jesus "Whatsoever
a man soweth, that shall he also reap." "For verily I say unto you, Till
heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no
wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled." "And it is easier for heaven and
earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fail." "He which soweth sparingly shall
reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully
shall reap also bountifully." "For all flesh is as grass, and
all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass
withereth, and the flower falleth away: But the word of
the Lord endureth for ever." "And as Jesus passed by, he saw a
man which was blind from his birth. And his disciples
asked him, saying, 'Master, who did sin, this man, or his
parents, that he was born blind?' Jesus answered,
'Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but the
works of God should be made manifest in
him'." "Put not off from day to day and
from cycle to cycle, is the belief that ye will succeed
in obtaining the mysteries when ye return to the world in
another cycle." "When you make the inner like the
outer, and the outer like the inner, and the upper like
the lower
When you make the male and female into a
single one, so that the male will not be male, and the
female will not be female
then will you enter the
Kingdom of God." "And Amulek hath spoken plainly
concerning death, and being raised from this mortality to
a state of immortality, and being brought before the bar
of God, to be judged according to our works." "If the karma of man has brought
him nothing more than a capacity to love, then he has not
lived in vain for a thousand past lives. It is this love
which makes the most humble of Souls so great that it
lifts him beyond all life into the worlds of God." Wisdom of the West: The Bible - Old Testament & Teachings of Prophets "God shall judge the righteous and
the wicked: for there is a time for every purpose and for
every work." "Rejoice, O young man, in thy
youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy
youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the
sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these
things God will bring thee into judgment." "For they have sown the wind, and
they shall reap the whirlwind." "Even as I have seen, they that
plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same." "All souls are subject to
revolution
but men do not know the ways of the Holy
One
They are ignorant of the way they have been
judged in all time, before they came into this world and
when they have quitted it." "I am a sorcerer. Everything I see
I create. I have created and will continue to create my
own world." "The knowledge of the commandments
of the Lord is the doctrine of life: and they that do
things that please him shall receive the fruit of the
tree of immortality." "For after death shall the
judgment come, when we shall live again: and then shall
the names of the righteous be manifest and the works of
the ungodly declared." "In all things that thou hast
brought upon us
thou hast executed true judgment:
for according to truth and judgment didst thou bring all
these things upon us because of our sins. For we have
sinned and committed iniquity, departing from thee.. and
not obeyed thy commandments, nor kept them, neither done
as thou hast commanded us, that it might go well with us.
Wherefore all that thou hast brought upon us, and all
that thou hast done to us, thou hast done in true
judgment." "Every soul... comes into the
world strengthened by the victories or weakened by the
defeats of its' previous life. Its' place in this world
as a vessel appointed to honor or dishonor, is determined
by its' previous merits or demerits. Its' work in this
world determines its' place in the world which is to
follow this." "She cries when the season comes
for corn plants to dry out, signifying the death of her
grandsons, and rejoices when they sprout again,
signifying rebirth
The ground bone thrown into the
river
becomes the substance for the
rebirth
" "In other worlds I lingered
through the length of many nights; Wisdom of the East: The Bhagavad Gita and Buddha "The
immediate source of a mind
must be a mind which
existed before the conception took place; the mind must
have a continuity from a previous mind. This we hold to
prove the existence of a past life." "He that leadeth into captivity
shall go into captivity; he that killeth with the sword
must be killed with the sword." ( Note the
similarity to the Western phrase is "Live by the
Sword, Die by the Sword") "The embodied one within the body
of everyone, Bharata, is ever undestroyable. Therefore
you should not grieve for any being
. (It) is as
when one layeth his worn-out robes away
taking new
ones, sayeth, 'These will I wear to-day!' so putteth by
the spirit lightly its garb of flesh, and passeth to
inherit a residence afresh." "Therefore, thou noblest child of
Bharata! "For, owners of their deeds
(karma) are the beings, heirs of their deeds; their deeds
are the womb from which they sprang; with their deeds
they are bound up; their deeds are their refuge. Whatever
deeds they do-good or evil-of such they will be the
heirs. And wherever the beings spring into existence,
there their deeds will ripen; and wherever their deeds
ripen, there they will earn the fruits of those deeds, be
it in this life, or be it in the next life, or be it in
any other future life." "Surely if living creatures saw
the results of all their evil deeds, they would turn away
from them in disgust. But selfhood blinds them, and they
cling to their obnoxious desires. They crave pleasure for
themselves and they cause pain to others; when death
destroys their individuality, they find no peace; their
thirst for existence abides and their selfhood reappears
in new births. Thus they continue to move in the coil and
can find no escape from the hell of their own
making." "Dependent Origination is the
teaching
(that life) is not the mere play of blind
chance, but has an existence that is dependent upon
conditions. That, precisely with the removal of these
conditions, those things that have arisen in dependence
upon them-thus also all suffering-must perforce disappear
and cease to be." "The 'Craving for Eternal
Existence' is intimately connected with the 'Eternity-
Belief', ie, the belief in an absolute, eternal,
Ego-entity persisting independently of our body
Verily, because beings, obstructed by Delusion, and
ensnared by Craving, now here now there seek ever fresh
delight, therefore such action comes to ever fresh
Rebirth. And the action that is done out of greed, anger
and delusion, that springs from them, has its source and
origin there. This action ripens wherever one is reborn;
and wherever this action ripens, there one experiences
the fruits of this action, be it in this life, or the
next life, or in some future life." "As men think so they are, both
here and hereafter, Wisdom of the East: The Upanishads and Others "Ho! Ye who suffer! Know ye suffer
from yourselves. None else compels." "The individual self, augmented by
its' aspirations, sense contact, visual impressions and
delusion, assumes successive forms in accordance with
it's actions
So it is that we live in accordance
with our deep, driving desire. It is this desire at the
time of death that determines what our next life is to
be. We will come back to Earth to work out the
satisfaction of that desire." "What becomes of this man? Indeed,
one becomes good by good action and bad by bad
action." "We never made for any mortal
before thee immortality
Every soul shall taste of
death! We will test them with evil and good, as a trial;
& unto us shall they return!" "A stone I died and rose again a
plant, "It is nature's kindness that we
do not remember past births. Life would be a burden if we
carried such a tremendous load of memories." "The natural laws of the universe
are inviolable
what you say and do determines what
happens in your life
You are the master of your
life and death. "Before you embark on a journey of
revenge, dig two graves." From the Great and Near Great: "Born Again, Begin Again Not Quite" "Those who cannot remember the
past are condemned to repeat it." "The Soul which is approaching
its' liberation, as it looks back over past lives... down
the vistas of the centuries along which it has slowly
been climbing,... is able to see there the way in which
the bonds were made, the causes which set it in motion.
It is able to see how many of those causes have worked
themselves out and... how many... are still working
themselves out." "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 us as firmly
and as closely as that forged from our vices." "'Nature is conquered by
obedience' - and her resistless energies are at our
bidding, as soon as we, by knowledge, work with them and
not against them. We can choose out of her boundless
stores the forces that serve our purpose in momentum, in
direction, and so on, and their very invariability
becomes the guarantee of our success." "
as I apprehend the Buddhist
doctrine of karma, I agree in principle with that." "Just as an age was ready to
receive the Copernican theory of the universe, so is our
own age ready for the ideas of reincarnation and karma to
be brought into the general consciousness of humanity.
And what is destined to happen in the course of evolution
will happen no matter what powers rise up against
it." "Once the game is over, the king
and the pawn go back in the same box." "Forgetfulness of the past may be
one of the conditions of an entrance upon a new stage of
existence. The body, which is the organ of
sense-perception, may be quite as much a hindrance as a
help to remembrance. In that case, casual gleams of
memory, giving us sudden, abrupt, momentary revelations
of the past, are precisely the phenomena we would expect
to meet with." "There is no argument so cogent
not only in demonstrating, the indestructibility of the
soul, but also in showing that it always preserves in its
nature traces of all its preceding states with a
practical remembrance which can always be aroused. Since
it has the consciousness of or knows in itself what each
one calls his me. This renders it open to moral
qualities, to chastisement and to recompense even after
this life, for immortality without remembrance would be
of no value." "You are everything you have ever
been - right now." "You have inherited (the) most
from yourself, not from your family! The family is only a
river through which Soul flows." "We meet no Stranger, but
Ourself." "The endless legacy of the past to
the present is the secret source of human genius." "The choice of souls was in most
cases based on their own experience of a previous
life
Knowledge easily acquired is that which the
enduing self had in an earlier life, so that it flows
back easily." "What lies behind us and what lies
before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within
us." "Still seems it strange, that thou
shouldst live forever? "Karma chameleon: we come and go,
we come and go
" From Great and Near Great: "An Eye for an Eye, A Tooth for a Tooth" "God is in the details
and
it's all details." "Though the mills of the God grind
slowly, yet they grind exceedingly small: though with
patience He stands waiting, with exactness He grinds them
all." "O youth or young man, who fancy
that you are neglected by the Gods, know that if you
become worse, you shall go to worse souls, or if better
to the better
In every succession of life and
death, you will do and suffer what like may fitly suffer
at the hands of like. This is the justice of
heaven." "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." "Our deeds determine us as much as
we determine our deeds." "There is a destiny that makes us
brothers: none goes his way alone, "Men's minds do not die with their
bodies but are made more happy or miserable after this
life according to their actions." "Sin makes its own hell, and
goodness its own heaven." "Thus the whirligig of time brings
in his revenges." "Are not all things which have
opposites generated out of their opposites?" "Every action of our lives touches
on some chord that will vibrate in eternity." "Who hath a prospect of the
different state of perfect happiness or misery that
attends all men after this life, depending on their
behavior, the measures of good and evil that govern his
choice are mightily changed." "I believe that we are solely
responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the
consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout
our lifetime." "Nobody is ever a victim without
cause." From the Great & Near Great: "Karma is a Teacher, Not a Slave Driver" "'Perfect justice rules the world'
for the Powers that are superior to us know the whole
life of the Soul and all its' former lives." "We are where centuries only count
as seconds, and after a thousand lives, our eyes begin to
open." "Belief in karma ought to make the
life pure, strong, serene, and glad. Only our own deeds
can hinder us; only our own will can fetter us. Once let
men recognize this truth, and the hour of their
liberation has struck. Nature cannot enslave the soul
that by wisdom has gained power and uses both in
love." "Or ever the knightly years were
gone, with the old world to the grave, "Actually, we have no problems: we
have opportunities for which we should give thanks
An error we refuse to correct has many lives. It takes
courage to face one's own shortcomings and wisdom to do
something about them." "Man peoples his current living
space with a world of his own, crowded with the offspring
of his fancies, desires, impulses, and passions." "If the soul be pure, then shall
she obtain favor and rejoice in the latter day; but if
she hath been defiled, then shall she wander for a time
in pain and despair." "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). "There is none that is more
powerful in leading feeble minds astray from the straight
path of virtue than the supposition that the soul of the
brutes is of the same nature with our own. And
consequently that after this life we have nothing to hope
for or fear, more than flies and ants. In place of which,
when we know how far they differ we much better
comprehend the reasons which establish that the soul is
of a nature wholly independent of the body. And that
consequently it is not liable to die with the latter;
and, finally, because no other causes are observed
capable of destroying it, we are naturally led thence to
judge that it is immortal." "If the only prayer you said in
your whole life was, 'thank you,' that would
suffice
" (to reduce karma!) From Great & Near Great: "Whither Thou Goest, God is Always There" "Yet through all, we know this
tangled skein is in the hands of One, "Eternity is not something that
begins after you are dead. It is going on all the
time." "Love - is anterior to Life -
Posterior - to Death - Initial of Creation, and The
Exponent of Earth." "What thou seest, that thou be'st:
dust if thous seest dust, God if thou seest God." "
a healer's heritage is as
much Christ and Krishna as it is Freud and Jung
therefore a healer's capacity to help is limited only by
his spirit which is limitless
" "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." "For we have come by different
ways to this place
I can tell by the natural ease
with which you wear fine clothes and the way your mouth
moves when you speak with waiters in good restaurants.
You have come the way of castles and cathedrals, of
elegance and empire." "Many times man lives and dies
between his two eternities: "World War II showed it was not
gods that must be placated, but something inside the
heart of man that lets him to destroy with savage
intensity and on a grand scale those of his own kind who
have offended him." "It is not enough to know about
reincarnation; we must live it." "Once I leave this earth, I know
I've done something that continues to help others." "My karma ran over my dogma." "What goes around, comes
around." "Know that I am always with
you
"
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