Instant Karma Quotes

If your actions were to boomerang back on you instantly, would you still act the same? Doing to others an act you’d rather not have done to you reveals a powerful internal conflict.

Entonces me di cuenta de que a veces nos gusta enamorarnos de sueños porque la realidad nos asusta.

Soul mates recognise one another's vibration. They instantly fuse to the life force that surrounds their core of being.

I believe I'm a good person. But what if I'm not?

Actions make a person good, not motives. I’m not sure I agree with that.

None of this happens, of course. My dreams of cosmic justice never do come true.

A veces, hay que viajar a otros planetas, aunque solo sea de visita, para recordar que por mucho que te sientas solo, realmente nunca lo estás.

Like - that presentation board you'd made up? You definitely should have let me take care of that part." I frown. "What was wrong with my presentation board?" He gives me a look, like I shouldn't even have to ask. "For starters, you used the Papyrus font for the headers." "So? What's wrong with Papyrus?" He makes a gagging noise.

Time is not just the hands of a clock. It isn't just a change of seasons either. It is a treasure trove of precious moments, infinite little joys and blessings, precious smiles, tears and heartbeats.

A fighter never gives up. His scars are his ornaments. He may never be whole, yet he’s bigger than all his battles and beautiful, even in his brokenness.

A veces hacemos elecciones y otras veces las elecciones nos hacen a nosotros.

So a stray penny is a gift from the universe, but choosing to not pick it up is like … paying it forward?” “Who are we to question the powers that be?

True love is like a bird of many colours, at times, soft and comforting, at others, wild and intense. Yet, it is a fire we all desire. Don’t be afraid of its intense force. It is a spark that consumes the heart, but it quenches the thirst of the seeking soul.

Los recuerdos son recuerdos porque una vez sucedieron, porque fueron reales. No puedes inventar un recuerdo; es como es, aunque hayas olvidado su contenido, aunque ya no seas capaz de recordar lo que sentiste.

...we lay there in the dark for a split second before the beast galumphed toward us. Meabh, always quick with a sword, sprang to her feet and charged the dragon head-on while I mostly just wondered who or what I'd offended in a past life that this one was peopled by dragons. Except I didn't have any past lives, so apparently I'd offended somebody in this life and was facing instant karma. That didn't really improve anything, in my ever so humble opinion.

El universo es demasiado grande, solo hay que saber dónde aterrizar.

It's ironic, right? The economy is great, but it's always a struggle for the little guy.

Hey, look!' yells Jude. 'It's Carlos! Just in time to prevent a painfully awkward moment.

All your past Karma get cleaned in just one moment of realization, the realization that you are not the doer. You didn’t do any of it. You just got attached to the doer; you just copied the doer’s Karma on your Pen Drive. The whole data can be cleaned in an instant of realization.

I bought them at Toni's Consignment.' She counts off on her fingers. 'That's recycling, supporting a local business, and making sure that the sacrifice of these animals has a purpose, rather than them ending up in a landfill.' 'No, that's contributing to a culture that values fashion and vanity more than the sanctity of life.

—Tú eres un erizo. —¿Qué tienes en contra de los erizos? —Sus púas también hacen daño. Via sonrió. —Sobreviviremos.

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Maybe you’re not perfect, but you certainly are not unworthy. You are beautiful. A flower with a petal still unfurled does not lack in fragrance.

I guess someone has to be your partner, so I might as well take one for the team" "How very generous of you

Life has knocked me down plenty of times. But there’s always a little bit of me that tells me to get back up, to rise, and shine. It reminds me that I don’t belong in the dust. I belong in the stars and that’s where I should be headed. And that little bit of me… that’s the one I love the most!

Your five senses are collecting data from the outside world every moment of your life. You are literally being bombarded with stimuli at every instant. Over time, this enormous volume of sense impressions begins to assume a certain distinctive pattern within you. This pattern slowly shapes itself into behavioral tendencies. A cluster of tendencies hardens over time into what you call your personality, or what you claim to be your true nature.

Los problemas existen y todo lo que existe se puede ahuyentar.

Un erizo llamado Via que, de entre todos los erizos que habitaban el mundo, había decidido acercarse a un cactus.

—¿Por qué lo hacemos? ¿No basta con quiénes somos? —Nunca basta con quién eres. —Me gustaría que bastara.

Pensó que quizá todo se resumía en que él era la Luna, ella la astronauta y su música las huellas.

¿Por qué las pequeñas cosas tienen el poder de convertirse en gigantes y aplastarnos?

—Me gusta mucho cómo eres. Rin se obligó a no apartar los ojos de los de ella. —A mí no —repitió él.

Que el tiempo es inclemente, que nunca te espera, que hay que saber correr tras él o, de lo contrario, te quedas atrás.

Cuando dices «te doy mi corazón» lo que quieres decir en realidad es «te doy lo que me hace ser yo. Lo imposible».

A veces es mejor no buscar respuestas a preguntas que no tienen solución; corres el riesgo de quedar atrapado en ellas.

The waiter arrives, swapping out the empty appetizer plate with a giant platter of nachos, piled high with roasted pork, gooey cheese, and all the fixings.

Success stories begin with a decision. The decision to go beyond what you are. When you decide that your present station is not your destination, you are already half-way there.

To get carried away by a thought is the state of a sentient being. Rather than that, recognize your basic state as being the essence, nature and capacity that are the three kayas of the buddhas. Remain in uncontrived naturalness for short moments, repeated many times. You can become accustomed to this. The short moments can grow longer. In one instant of remaining in unfabricated naturalness, a kalpa of negative karma is purified.

It's like, Jude, for example," I say, quietly, careful with my words. "He's so nice. Everybody likes him. He just gets along with people, everywhere he goes. I know I'm not that. And Ari, she's so talented, and so passionate about music, but I'm not really passionate about anything, other than wanting to succeed. To do my best. But I can make plans, and I can stay organized, and if a teacher assigns a report, I'm going to write the best darn report they've ever seen. If I'm throwing a gala, I'm going to throw a party that no one will ever forget. I can do that. And if I can impress people, then maybe they won't notice that I'm not witty or beautiful or... fun.

But karma is not in fact a material accumulation, and does not depend on externals; rather its power to condition us depends on the obstacles that impede our knowledge. If we compare our karma and the ignorance that creates it to a dark room, knowledge of the primordial state would be like a lamp, which, when lit in the room, at once causes the darkness to disappear, enlightening everything. In the same way, if one has the presence of the primordial state, one can overcome all hindrances in an instant.

Life is a jungle, and we may not always have a map for it. Sometimes, it is for the best to get lost and make a house of hope in the middle of nowhere and let the sky and the stars lead you wherever your soul desires. Hope itself is light enough to illuminate the dark paths.

At the level of second attention, however, this cycle is irrelevant. One doesn’t need to repeal the law of karma at all. Despite all the activity on the surface of life, a speck of awareness inside is not touched. The instant they wake up in the morning, a saint and a sinner are in the same place. They both feel themselves to be alive and aware. This place stands outside reward and punishment. It knows no duality; therefore in stage four your challenge is to find this place, hold on to it, and live there. When you have accomplished this task, duality is gone. You are free from all bondage of good or bad actions. In Christian terms, your soul is redeemed and returned to innocence.

Korima sounds like karma and functions the same way, except in the here and now. It’s your obligation to share whatever you can spare, instantly and with no expectations: once the gift leaves your hand, it was never yours to begin with. The Tarahumara have no monetary system, so korima is how they do business: their economy is based on trading favors and the occasional cauldron of corn beer.

The ant… the foolish ant, sitting on the edge of an enormous disc spinning about its axis, reckons at every instant of time, that it’s progressing forward. Who would hold a mirror up to it? And convey it the truth, Clearing out its fallacy, Clean as a hound’s tooth. The fallacy that it can see the whole dimension in entirety. Shall it ever concede, If one tries to enlighten? Or, inured by canard shall it fight To win against what is right?

—¿Quién es Veronica Mars? —¿No sabes quién es? —¿Debería? —¡La hostia! Sí que es verdad que eres de otro planeta.

Todo lo que no puedes cambiar es lo que eres y todo lo que es elección tuya es lo que tienes.

Nadie puede hacer que aceptes algo que tú mismo rechazas.

Somos seres racionales dominados por algo tan irracional como los sentimientos.

Nuestro verdadero yo está encerrado en cosas que no haríamos y que hacemos solo porque somos estúpidos.

Joy' emanates only from those actions which bear fruits instantly. 'Act' today and 'result' tomorrow, such karmas can only impart pains and pleasures.

Grace, intention, manifestation, instant karma, responsibility and finally unconditional love will be the building blocks for the new world.

Philosophically, it’s a powerful way of viewing life. (“Poker is exactly like life, but with instant karma,” Chewy remarks.)

Pero no has dejado de estar ni un instante a mi lado, en mi corazón. es el karma. En la inmensidad de las edades, por un golpe de suerte o chiripazo, coincidimos tú y yo para entendernos, para acompañarnos hasta el final en el horror de la vida, la infamia de Dios.

The mutiny began when I got my driver’s license and found freedom the instant I was offered keys to my first car

thought: It's a sign. It's a sign I shouldn't have done it. This is my karma. Instant karma, that's what. I'm paying for my sin before I even get to commit it.

Suppression is never a permanent fix.

Durante unos segundos nos sobrevoló una quietud extraña, como si los que íbamos a ser estuvieran mirándose antes de que todo pasase. Sonrió y yo sonreí también. Faltaban aún muchas cosas por vivir para darnos cuenta de la importancia de aquel instante.

May this act of generosity be a cause for me to become enlightened, so that I may help all other beings attain this same state.

cause for me to become enlightened, so that I may help all other beings attain this same state.

May my every action of body, speech, and mind today be a cause for me to become enlightened, so that I may help all other beings attain this same state.

Even George Clinton sounded befuddled by “Mind Games” when he covered it on the very odd 1995 tribute album Working Class Hero, where he joined the likes of Blues Traveler and the Red Hot Chili Peppers to raise money for the cause of spaying cats and dogs. (You’d think the sound of Toad the Wet Sprocket doing “Instant Karma” would be enough to neuter any animal.)

Korima sounds like karma and functions the same way, except in the here and now. It’s your obligation to share whatever you can spare, instantly and with no expectations: once the gift leaves your hand, it was never yours to begin with.

Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world. —Albert Einstein

Life is a jungle, and we may not always have a map for it. Sometimes, it is for the best to get lost and make a house of hope in the middle of nowhere and let the sky and the stars lead you wherever your soul desires. Hope itself is light enough to illuminate the dark paths.

Now, the decline of God and the imminent collapse of so many faiths seems tied directly to the rise of surveillance, and the collective enforcement of social norms through instant global shaming. God promised punishment after death. Now it’s meted out in minutes. Karma was vague; digital shaming is specific. And I would argue people prefer the reliable nature of morality-through-surveillance over the ephemeral promises of the gods/Gods of the past. Prayers to God were rarely answered, while shouts into cyberspace always receive a response, even if misspelled and hateful. Everything God offered—answers, clarity, miracles, baby names—the internet does better. Do you know how many times What is the meaning of life? was searched on your platforms last year? Twenty-one billion times. Every one of those queries got a reply. The one question that could not be answered, until now, is Am I good?