Believer Of Karma Quotes

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Follow your passions, believe in karma, and you won't have to chase your dreams, they will come to you.
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Randy Pausch
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Dangerous consequences will follow when politicians and rulers forget moral principles. Whether we believe in God or karma, ethics is the foundation of every religion.
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Dalai Lama XIV
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Irrespective of whether we are believers or agnostics, whether we believe in God or karma, moral ethics is a code which everyone is able to pursue.
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Dalai Lama XIV (The Path To Tranquility: Daily Meditations By The Dalai Lama)
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Did you really believe I was Toby? Puh-lease. I would have killed myself too. I mean, honestly - ew. He totally had it coming. Karma's a bitch, and so am I - just ask Aria, Emily, Hanna, and Spencer....
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Sara Shepard (Flawless (Pretty Little Liars, #2))
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my karma was to be born in America where nobody has any fun or believes in anything, especially freedom.
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Jack Kerouac (The Dharma Bums)
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You have to appreciate where you have come from to know who you are in the present and whom you would like to be in the future.
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Truth Devour (Unrequited (Wantin #2))
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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.
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Daniel Handler
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You are the ruler of my heart. There is no measure greater than this.
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Truth Devour (Unrequited (Wantin #2))
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I believe in fate and I believe that things happen for a reason but I don't think that there's a high power, necessarily. I believe in karma very much though.
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Amy Winehouse
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Impossible to let go ... No longer knowing how to hold on.
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Truth Devour (Unrequited (Wantin #2))
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Never surrender to you're passions. Dream and live to excess.
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Truth Devour (Unrequited (Wantin #2))
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How aware are we of our own inner life, our spirituality-something so intangible yet so priceless? How much effort do we make to perceive that which is not obvious, which can neither be seen nor heard? I believe the exploration and enrichment of the human spirit is what determines our very humanity. Such enrichment provides an inner compass that can lead civilizations to greatness.
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Daisaku Ikeda
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Find my hand in the darkness, intertwined you will be the day to my night. We can share wings and take flight towards our own inner light.
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Truth Devour (Unrequited (Wantin #2))
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You believe in God?" demanded Billy Karma. "I believe in thirty-seven separate and distinct gods," answered Argyle proudly. "That puts me thirty-six ahead of you." "It makes you a pagan." "It makes you a man of limited vision," said Argyle.
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Mike Resnick (The Outpost (Birthright, #26))
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I convinced myself that everything was going to be okay. This is what happens when you believe in in hope. Karma comes around and destroy it.
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Katie McGarry (Dare You To (Pushing the Limits, #2))
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Every cloud has a silver lining. The edge of light that shines brightest holds a sliver of hope for a bright today & an even better tomorrow.
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Truth Devour (Unrequited (Wantin #2))
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The Phoenix burns and rebirths from the ashes in the absence of need for witness, acceptance, understanding or belief.
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Truth Devour (Unrequited (Wantin #2))
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My mind aches with a thousand stories. All variations with shredded threads of truth.
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Truth Devour (Unrequited (Wantin #2))
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I can resist everything but the temptation of you.
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Truth Devour (Unrequited (Wantin #2))
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I don't believe in karma, but I believe there are things that can happen that very specifically force you to understand what an asshole you were.
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Allie Brosh (Solutions and Other Problems)
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Soul mates recognise one another's vibration. They instantly fuse to the life force that surrounds their core of being.
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Truth Devour (Unrequited (Wantin #2))
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She always, She always wanted to express herself but no one cared, So she stopped, She was crushed, Stiff & lifeless, Like everything else.
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Truth Devour (Unrequited (Wantin #2))
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You are worth fighting for.
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Truth Devour (Unrequited (Wantin #2))
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Never deviate from the path unless you are going to make love in the bushes .....
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Truth Devour (Unrequited (Wantin #2))
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Love is transcendent. It knows not of time nor space. It exist between 'us' for 'us.' Love and be loved. ~ Always ~
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Truth Devour (Unrequited (Wantin #2))
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Thank you for existing.
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Truth Devour (Unrequited (Wantin #2))
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You can't connect the dots looking forward. You can only connect them looking backwards...You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever - because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart, even when it leads you off the well-worn path.
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Steve Jobs
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The thought of you makes my heart melt.
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Truth Devour (Unrequited (Wantin #2))
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Totally present in this moment for you.
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Truth Devour (Unrequited (Wantin #2))
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many believe in karma but i take it to a whole different level.
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Vincent Alexandria
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Happiness comes easier when I'm thinking of you.
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Truth Devour (Unrequited (Wantin #2))
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You are the master of my heart. I am a slave to you're soul. Intertwined in a perfect embrace that I will never release myself from.
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Truth Devour (Unrequited (Wantin #2))
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Soul mate love transcends beyond the ethereal plane.
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Truth Devour (Unrequited (Wantin #2))
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Control is an illusion, as is restraint. Dark to light, light to darkness.
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Truth Devour (Unrequited (Wantin #2))
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We are told in fairy tales that evil always loses and good eventually will triumph. That is what makes those stories so desirable to the general population. They want to believe that karma works and the bad guys are always defeated in the end. But in a world where no one thinks they are the bad guy and everyone plays the victim, it is harder and harder to find the black and the white of a situation. We are all the hero, and we are all the monster.
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John Goode (Maybe With a Chance of Certainty (Tales from Foster High, #1))
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Never forsake what we have. There is no barter or trade worth exchanging what we mean to one another.
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Truth Devour (Unrequited (Wantin #2))
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Eternities mutual embrace.
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Truth Devour (Unrequited (Wantin #2))
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The cult of positivity we have does everyone a disservice. It leads us to believe weโ€™re more in charge of the world than we are, and holds us responsible for every pain and heartbreak we endure. It sets up a one-false-move world, in which we must be careful not to upset the gods, or karma, or our bodies with our thoughts and intentions.
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Megan Devine (It's OK That You're Not OK: Meeting Grief and Loss in a Culture That Doesn't Understand)
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If you make a person believe that his misfortune in this birth is due to his sins in his previous birth, he will resign himself to his fate and not vent his fury on society at large.
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Amish Tripathi (The Immortals of Meluha (Shiva Trilogy, #1))
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I believe I'm a good person. But what if I'm not?
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Marissa Meyer (Instant Karma (Fortuna Beach, #1))
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Feel my presence. Recognise my soul. Love my heart.
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Truth Devour (Unrequited (Wantin #2))
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The thought of you makes my days brighter and my nights filled with dreams.
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Truth Devour (Unrequited (Wantin #2))
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Unquenchable desire for interconnectedness. Sate me.
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Truth Devour (Unrequited (Wantin #2))
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Fate had a hand in it - luck had nothing to do with it.
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Truth Devour (Unrequited (Wantin #2))
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Don't come in, Dad!" Hank said. "Believe me, I won't," Karma said with a vocal shiver. "Justโ€ฆI have, um, condoms and lube." And in a mutter, "Your mother made me.
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Eli Easton (Unwrapping Hank (Unwrapping Hank, #1))
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All paths lead me to you.
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Truth Devour (Unrequited (Wantin #2))
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All that I am. All that I will be is defined by this moment.
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Truth Devour (Unrequited (Wantin #2))
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I want you to be happy and for me to be part of that happiness.
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Truth Devour (Unrequited (Wantin #2))
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I yearn to taste my desire on your lips.
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Truth Devour (Unrequited (Wantin #2))
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You are the missing piece of my heart and soul. United we are now whole.
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Truth Devour (Unrequited (Wantin #2))
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I will gladly spend the rest of my days learning your secrets.
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Truth Devour (Unrequited (Wantin #2))
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Colour me with you're intentions.
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Truth Devour (Unrequited (Wantin #2))
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If its a lie, Then let me live, Between the interconnected fabric of truths, Offer me no more, Give me no less.
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Truth Devour (Unrequited (Wantin #2))
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Dance with me through moments of surreality. We are one.
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Truth Devour (Unrequited (Wantin #2))
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I want to explore every aspect of you.
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Truth Devour (Unrequited (Wantin #2))
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You make me want to be a better than I am today.
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Truth Devour (Unrequited (Wantin #2))
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The measure of space & time creates an echo of haunting distance between us, yet we are close, we are united in the love we forge together.
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Truth Devour (Unrequited (Wantin #2))
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She drinks in his nakedness. Her sixth sense of knowing assures her that he is the one she has been waiting for all her life.
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Truth Devour (Unrequited (Wantin #2))
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Forever and always from me to you. My love is pure, my love is true. It is gifted to none other than you.
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Truth Devour (Unrequited (Wantin #2))
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You became the sonnet that was etched in my minds eye. Existing outside the dreams we shared in the presence of our eternal love.
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Truth Devour (Unrequited (Wantin #2))
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I love you more than the cookie monster loves cookies.
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Truth Devour (Unrequited (Wantin #2))
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You are a God among men and I am you're queen of hearts.
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Truth Devour (Unrequited (Wantin #2))
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I am insatiable - aim to sate me but never dull my flames of desire that are fuelled by the existence of you.
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Truth Devour (Unrequited (Wantin #2))
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Those who believe in karma do not blame. They do not judge. They accept that humans live in a sea of consequences, over which there is limited control. So they accept every moment as it is supposed to be. They act without expectation.
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Devdutt Pattanaik (My Gita)
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We will never have an expiration date. Our love is destined to exist forever.
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Truth Devour (Unrequited (Wantin #2))
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Twin flames burn eternal. Destine to shine bright in a united embrace that is set to last for an eternity.
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Truth Devour (Unrequited (Wantin #2))
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You are my dark turned to bright, the day into my light. A vision of splendour to my lights, light.
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Truth Devour (Unrequited (Wantin #2))
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Shattered edges of the diamonds rough sets to cut the unsuspecting.
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Truth Devour (Unrequited (Wantin #2))
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Some mysteries are meant to stay that way.
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Truth Devour (Unrequited (Wantin #2))
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You are the keeper of my eternal secrets.
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Truth Devour (Unrequited (Wantin #2))
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My old chief taught me three lessons: Never believe anything you hear and only half of what you see. Never go into debt because you will never get out. And never pat yourself on the back because karma will bite you in the ass. Karma, I think, meet ass.
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David Macinnis Gill (Black Hole Sun (Hell's Cross, #1))
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So. If this was some normal fictional young-adult book, this is the part of the story where after the film, the entire high school would rise to their feet and applaud, and Earl and I would find True Acceptance and begin to Truly Believe in Ourselves and Rachel would somehow miraculously make a recovery, or maybe she would die but we would Always Have Her to Thank for Making Us Discover Our Inner Talent, and Madison would become my girlfriend and I would get to nuzzle her boobs like an affectionate panda cub whenever I wanted. That is why fiction sucks. None of that happened. Instead, pretty much everything happened that I was afraid of, except worse.
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Jesse Andrews (Me and Earl and the Dying Girl)
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Beyond the mask she is witness to his glorious soul. Exposed to the elements, she warms her skin in his light and essence of being.
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Truth Devour (Unrequited (Wantin #2))
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Right time, right place, right moment.
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Truth Devour (Unrequited (Wantin #2))
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Karma is real. Everything that you do now, whether good or bad, will come back to you tenfold. It may not happen now. In fact, it always happens when you least expect it. You don't have to believe in karma. Karma believes in you. It will come for you whether you believe in it or not.
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Kara King (The Power of the Pussy (Part Two) - (Dating, Marriage, and Divorce Advice for Women) (Dating and Relationship Advice for Women - Get What You Want From ... Respect, Commitment, and More! Book 2))
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I believe in kindness and karmaโ€”which could make me a Buddhist. I believe in mystic healing and crystalsโ€™ powersโ€”which could make me a witch. I believe in truth, honor, and forgivenessโ€”which could make me a Christian. I even believe in the existence of past lives and that each and every one of us is watched over by guides from the other sideโ€”which, to some, would make me totally woo-woo squared.
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Emma Mildon (The Soul Searcher's Handbook: A Modern Girl's Guide to the New Age World)
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Maybe thereโ€™s a heaven, like they say, a place where everything weโ€™ve ever done is noted and recorded, weighed on big karma scales. Maybe not. Maybe this whole thing is just a giant experiment run by aliens who find out human hijinks amusing. Or maybe weโ€™re an abandoned project started by a deity who checked out a long time ago, but weโ€™re still hard-wired to believe, to try to make meaning out of the seemingly random. Maybe weโ€™re all part of the same unconscious stew, dreaming the same dreams, hoping the same hopes, needing the same connection, trying to find it, missing, trying againโ€”each of us playing our parts in the otherโ€™s plotlines, just one big ball of human yarn tangled up together. Maybe this is it.
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Libba Bray
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Mari [Mary Magdalene] possessed a remarkably coherent understanding of what following The Way [Rahasya] meant. She believed that this spiritual philosophy taught that the world represented Man's mystic school from whence each person ultimately graduated by reaching the Enlightened State. Therefore, according to this spiritual discipline, human suffering is very subjective and manifested itself according to every person's personal karma or attitude to life. This meant that every life a person experienced imparted a certain number of spiritual lessons that may not have been experienced before in other lives. Ultimately, every experience could be relived and bring about spiritual growth, assisting the individual to move continually closer to the Enlightened State.
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Anton Sammut (The Secret Gospel of Jesus, AD 0-78)
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Always choose to be smart There are two types of people in the world, the seekers of riches and the wise thinkers, those who believe that the important thing is money, and those who know that knowledge is the true treasure. I, for my part, choose the second option, Though I could have everything I want I prefer to be an intelligent person, and never live in a game of vain appearances. Knowledge can take you far far beyond what you imagine, It can open doors and opportunities for you. and make you see the world with different eyes. But in this eagerness to be "wise", There is a task that is a great challenge. It is facing the fear of the unknown, and see the horrors around every corner. It's easy to be brave when you're sure, away from dangers and imminent risks, but when death threatens you close, "wisdom" is not enough to protect you. Because, even if you are smart and cunning, death sometimes comes without mercy, lurking in the darkest shadows, and there is no way to escape. That is why the Greek philosophers, They told us about the moment I died, an idea we should still take, to understand that death is a reality. Wealth can't save you of the inevitable arrival of the end, and just as a hoarder loses his treasures, we also lose what we have gained. So, if we have to choose between two things, that is between being cunning or rich, Always choose the second option because while the money disappears, wisdom helps us face dangers. Do not fear death, my friend, but embrace your intelligence, learn all you can in this life, and maybe you can beat time and death for that simple reason always choose to be smart. Maybe death is inevitable But that doesn't mean you should be afraid because intelligence and knowledge They will help you face any situation and know what to do. No matter what fate has in store, wisdom will always be your best ally, to live a life full of satisfaction, and bravely face any situation. So don't settle for what you have and always look for ways to learn more, because in the end, true wealth It is not in material goods, but in knowledge. Always choose to be smart, Well, that will be the best investment. that will lead you on the right path, and it will make you a better version of yourself.
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Marcos Orowitz (THE MAELSTROM OF EMOTIONS: A selection of poems and thoughts About us humans and their nature)
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I want to be owned by you.
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Truth Devour (Unrequited (Wantin #2))
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...if everybody is born essentially good, what is wrong with our society that it so often allows the goodness to go into hiding? It is easier, I suppose, just to believe that some people are born inherently evil.
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Rosamund Kendal (The Karma Suture)
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No matter how busy we may believe we are, we have the wonderful opportunity presently of investing time with loved ones. For those are the great investments we will be glad we made, when time begins to slow and the ability to tend turns tender.
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Tom Althouse (The Frowny Face Cow)
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These debauched folks, these intemperate, depraved, corrupt lowlifes, know the speed at which Karma works. They donโ€™t care about their next lives (even if they believe in reincarnation). All they care about is now. And why wouldnโ€™t they? As I told you, they wouldnโ€™t be them in their next lives. This is why even the most metaphysical of them live like there is no tomorrow. They hurt, they cheat, they gormandize, they lead a lecherous life with utter disregard for others, all because they know this is a Devilโ€™s world.
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Abhaidev (The World's Most Frustrated Man)
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Fundamentally, your brain doesnโ€™t like or want to believe in randomness. It always believes you have some control, even when you donโ€™t. It may be delusional but weโ€™re happier deluded. And delusion ironically makes us perform better on average.
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Eric Barker
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you know when i was a little kid in oregon i didn't feel that i was and american at all, with all that suburban ideal and sex repression and general dreary newspaper gray censorship of all our real human values but and when i discovered buddhism and all i suddenly felt that i had lived in a previous lifetime innumerable ages ago and now because of the faults and sins in that lifetime i was being degraded to a more grievous domain of existence and my karma was to be born in america where nobody has any fun or believes in anything, especially freedom.
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Jack Kerouac (The Dharma Bums)
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If enough people say something enough times, even if itโ€™s found out to be untrue, they have it so deeply in their minds at that point that they still believe the false gossip over the truth. At that point, they internalize it and are more determined to be โ€œrightโ€ about the gossip they spread, than to see things how they really are.
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Doe Zantamata (Karma (Happiness in Your Life, #1))
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We preach and practice brotherhood โ€” not only of man but of all living beings โ€” not on Sundays only but on all the days of the week. We believe in the law of universal justice โ€” that our present condition is the result of our past actions and that we are not subjected to the freaks of an irresponsible governor, who is prosecutor and judge at the same time; we depend for our salvation on our own acts and deeds and not on the sacrificial death of an attorney.
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Virchand Gandhi (The Monist)
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O Karma, Dharma, pudding and pie O Karma, Dharma, pudding and pie, gimme a break before I die: grant me wisdom, will, & wit, purity, probity, pluck, & grit. Trustworthy, loyal, helpful, kind, gimme great abs & a steel-trap mind, and forgive, Ye Gods, some humble adviceโ€” these little blessings would suffice to beget an earthly paradise: make the bad people goodโ€” and the good people nice; and before our world goes over the brink, teach the believers how to think.
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Philip Appleman
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Do you know the concept of karma? Itโ€™s kind of like a circle, or cause-and-effect, like a slow-tolling bell you rang maybe a year ago, five years ago, maybe in another lifetime if you believe in that. Karma means that what you do today, and why you do it, makes you who you are forever: as if you were clay, and every thought and action left a mark in that clay, bent it, shaped it, even ruined itโ€ฆ but with karma there are no excuses, no explanations, no I-didnโ€™t-really-mean-it-so-can-I-have-some-more-clay. Karma takes everything you do very, very seriously.
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Kathe Koja (Buddha Boy)
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Karl Marx famously called religion 'the opiate of the masses'. Buddhism, particularly as it is popularly practiced, promises improvement through karma. Islam and Christianity promise eternal life to the faithful. And that is a powerful opiate, certainly, the hope of a better life to come. But there's a Sufi story that challenges the notion that people believe only because they need an opiate. Rabe'a al-Adiwiyah, a great woman saint of Sufism, was seen running through the streets of her hometown, Basra, carrying a torch in one hand and a bucket of water in the other. When someone asked her what she was doing, she answered, 'I am going to take this bucket of water and pour it on the flames of hell, and then I am going to use this torch to burn down the gates of paradise so that people will not love God for want of heaven or fear of hell, but because He is God.
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John Green
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The universe will bring people whatever they wantโ€ฆLet the magic happen. Itโ€™s always there. Abundance and love are always there. Believe in the highest good. There is a higher essence to everything. The realm youโ€™re in has a heaviness that mutes energy. You can penetrate through it, no matter how dark and heavy. Sometimes it has nothing to do with karma. Just donโ€™t forget to keep it open. Donโ€™t get too bogged downโ€ฆProsperity can happen at any time. I want to give you everything that you need.-Kuan Yin
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Hope Bradford (Beneficial Law of Attraction: the Manifestation Teachings (Kuan Yin Law of Attraction Techniques based on "Oracle of Compassion: the Living Word of Kuan Yin))
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He believed that every individual was responsible for his conduct on earth, that there was a judge within. Could even a blazingly Christ inflict greater retribution? Could Dante's Charon in his rowboat on the river Acheron whip the miscreants into a deeper, more everlasting hell than man's unvarnished verdict of himself?
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Irving Stone (The Agony and the Ecstasy)
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When bad things happen to good people, we have a problem. We know consciously that life is unfair, but unconsciously we see the world through the lens of reciprocity. The downfall of an evil man (in our biased and moralistic assessment) is no puzzle: He had it coming to him. But when the victim was virtuous, we struggle to make sense of his tragedy. At an intuitive level, we all believe in karma, the Hindu notion that people reap what they sow. The psychologist Mel Lerner has demonstrated that we are so motivated to believe that people get what they deserve and deserve what they get that we often blame the victim of a tragedy, particularly when we canโ€™t achieve justice by punishing a perpetrator or compensating the victim.
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Jonathan Haidt (The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom)
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I have always believed reincarnation to be true. This will go on and on until one discovers oneself. But at times, my thinking deviates a bit from eastern philosophy. I donโ€™t think our bad karmas would make us cockroaches, rats, pigs, etc., in our next lives. I am of the view that achieving Moksha isnโ€™t possible unless we experience everything that could be experienced. I have to experience oppression, but I also have to oppress. I have to be a sparrow to experience the joy of flight. I have to be a bee to experience colours beyond the visible spectrum. And I have to be a dog to hear ultrasonic sounds. Do you get it? I have to experience everything to achieve moksha. Becoming a bee in the next life is not the result of my bad Karma. It is instead a stepping stone. The path to ascension has to be a spiral. Not round and round. Every decision of mine has to lead there. Every step has to lead me towards self-actualization.
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Abhaidev (The World's Most Frustrated Man)
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I'm not ashamed of wanting you. And yes, I've missed touching you, and holding you, and I want that again. But that isn't all I've missed about you since you left town." He placed his palms on the sides of her face, bringing her gaze back to his. "I've missed the way you glance around when you think your karma is going to zap you. I miss watching you walk and the way you push your hair behind your ears. I miss the sound of your voice, and that you try to be a vegetarian and can't. I miss that you believe you're a pacifist even as you shock me on the arm. I've missed everything about you, Gabrielle.
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Rachel Gibson (It Must Be Love)
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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.
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Bode Miller
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Although a man has not studied a single system of philosophy, although he does not believe in any God, and never has believed, although he has not prayed even once in his whole life, if the simple power of good actions has brought him to that state where he is ready to give up his life and all else for others, he has arrived at the same point to which the religious man will come through his prayers and the philosopher through his knowledge; and so you may find that the philosopher, the worker, and the devotee, all meet at one point, that one point being self-abnegation.
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Swami Vivekananda (Karma Yoga)
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You must want to be free. It must become first with you before anything else. Everything that youโ€™ve done all your life, is only a game, a game youโ€™re playing with your self, only it seems to be real. The only reality is the Self and you are That. Why look for anything else? Everything else will take care of itself. Youโ€™ve got to abide in the Self, just in the Self. Everything else will take care of itself in a beautiful way. You areย boundless space, like the ocean, like the sky, all-pervasive. This is your real nature. But for some reason you believe you are a body, confined to a small space. This is not you. Itโ€™s illusion. You are all-pervading absolute reality. This is your true nature. This is who you really are. Just by thinking about these things all the time, something begins to happen to you, something wonderful. Do not think about the weather, or about the dayโ€™s work or your problems. For all the thinkers, who thinks? Find out who has the problems? Find out who you really are, who am I? Itโ€™s up to you to awaken from this mortal dream. You can keep on going likeย you are right now, with the good things and the bad things. Yet you live in a universe of dualities, which means for every good there is a bad. For every bad there is a good. Itโ€™s a false world in which you live. You need to awaken to this truth. Be aware of yourself, always. The world goesย through its own karma. It has absolutely nothing to do with you. You belong to God. Everything you see is God. This is why you should be nonjudgemental. Leave everything alone. By practising these things, you become radiantly happy. Everyone wants something. If your mind stops thinking, what happens? Some of you believe you will not have anything, that you will have more problems. But itโ€™s in reverse. You experience bliss, joy and happiness when you donโ€™t want anything. From what we know, people want something and when they get it, they become more miserable than ever before. Nothing is wrong. Everything is right just the way it is. Do not try to understand this or figure it out. Leave it alone. It will happen by itself, by keeping yourself quiet and still. You quiet the mind because of realization. Let it be calm. In all situations be calm. Let it be still and quiet. The world doesnโ€™t need any help from you. Arenโ€™t you the world, arenโ€™t you the Creator? You created the world the way it is. It came out of you, of your mind. The world that you are in, is a creation of your own mind. When the mind becomes still, the world begins to disappear. And youโ€™re in divine harmony and joy. Therefore, happiness comes to you when you stop thinking, when you stop judging, when you stop being afraid. When you begin to contemplate what is happiness. All the answers are within you. Everything youโ€™re looking for is within you, everything. Nobody can help but your Self. Know who you are. You are the power. All the power of the universe is within you. You have all the power you need. All is well, exceedingly well. It has always been well, it will always be well. When you leave here today act like a god or a goddess. Do not act like a human being any longer. Stop feeling sorry for yourself, saying youโ€™re unhappy. Stand up tall. Know the truth about yourself. Become the witness of allย phenomena that you see and be free. Peace.
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Robert Adams (Silence of the Heart: Dialogues with Robert Adams)
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I want to make it perfectly clear that although I believe in the continuity of existence, I do not hold to the simplistic theory that upon death a vaporous ghost containing our soul floats out of our dead body and goes to some cosmic waiting room while a karmic committee tallies up our unfulfilled needs and desires and matches us up with two unsuspecting fools who deserve the hell that we will put them through as much as we deserve the hell they will put us through. I am very confident, however, in the cycles of nature, and I do not see any reason to believe that the same cyclic behavior we observe in the universe around us cannot apply to consciousness and the continuity of our existence. Perhaps, because of the fragile nature of time, we are living all our "incarnations" simultaneously.
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Lon Milo DuQuette (My Life With the Spirits: The Adventures of a Modern Magician)
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Some foolish men declare that creator made the world. The doctrine that the world was created is ill advised and should be rejected. If God created the world, where was he before the creation? If you say he was transcendent then and needed no support, where is he now? How could God have made this world without any raw material? If you say that he made this first, and then the world, you are faced with an endless regression. If you declare that this raw material arose naturally you fall into another fallacy, For the whole universe might thus have been its own creator, and have arisen quite naturally. If God created the world by an act of his own will, without any raw material, then it is just his will and nothing else โ€” and who will believe this silly nonsense? If he is ever perfect and complete, how could the will to create have arisen in him? If, on the other hand, he is not perfect, he could no more create the universe than a potter could. If he is form-less, action-less and all-embracing, how could he have created the world? Such a soul, devoid of all morality, would have no desire to create anything. If he is perfect, he does not strive for the three aims of man, so what advantage would he gain by creating the universe? If you say that he created to no purpose because it was his nature to do so, then God is pointless. If he created in some kind of sport, it was the sport of a foolish child, leading to trouble. If he created because of the karma of embodied beings [acquired in a previous creation] He is not the Almighty Lord, but subordinate to something else. If out of love for living beings and need of them he made the world, why did he not take creation wholly blissful free from misfortune? If he were transcendent he would not create, for he would be free: Nor if involved in transmigration, for then he would not be almighty. Thus the doctrine that the world was created by God makes no sense at all, And God commits great sin in slaying the children whom he himself created. If you say that he slays only to destroy evil beings, why did he create such beings in the first place? Good men should combat the believer in divine creation, maddened by an evil doctrine. Know that the world is uncreated, as time itself is, without beginning or end, and is based on the principles, life and rest. Uncreated and indestructible, it endures under the compulsion of its own nature. [By 9th century Jain (the religion of Jainism) Acharya, Jinasena, in his work, Mahapurana, a major Jain text. The Jains have never believed in any gods as creators of the universe, unlike most other religions, and have focused on acting morally on Earth rather than wasting time supplicating the supernatural.]
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Jinasena (Mahapurana (เคฎเคนเคพเคชเฅเคฐเคพเคฃ))