Sharon Salzberg Quotes

I believe in karma.

Every person has free choice. Free to obey or disobey the Natural Laws. Your choice determines the consequences. Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices.

Sow an act and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.

In nature there are no rewards or punishments; there are consequences.

I'm a believer in karma, and I'm also a believer that things happen for a reason.

You cannot go through life without cause and effect.

Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.

In this world, there really is a law of cause and effect: You reap what you sow. Then energy you put out really does come back to you.

I believe that we are a result of our past.

When karma lands, it lands hard.

With some things, karma is good enough. Lessons come back in different ways, you know what I mean?

The fate that condemns or saves one sooner or later often condemns or saves another.

I believe in letting karma do its thing. What comes around goes around.

Everything comes home, my mother used to say; every word spoken, every shadow cast, every footprint in the sand. It can't be helped; it's part of what makes us who we are.

Everything that goes around comes around, they say, and although I've never been able to figure out who the mysteriously wise sages known as "they" might be, they're certainly right when it comes to time-travel.

We are all the foolishness and all the crimes we did. We're also all the kindnesses we did. I hate to think of life as if we understood time. We don't understand time.

The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.

What we live by we die by.

Maybe our mistakes are what make our fate.

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

Things happen. And good things happen, and bad things happen. And I'm a person - I'm a believer that everything happens for a reason.

As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.

Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

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