“Karma is simply the law of cause and effect in action. All moments and occurrences are caused by other moments and occurrences that preceded them in an endless, causal chain.” MomentsActionLawCausesEffectsKarmaEndlessChainsCause And Effect Author:Frederick Lenz
“Karma is the sum total of who you are, everything you've been. The mind state you are in is karmic. Meaning, it's related by a causal chain of existences, of moments, of particles of timelessness.” MindStatesMomentsExistenceWho You AreKarmaChainsRelatedParticlesTimelessness Author:Frederick Lenz
“With free will, we can modify, to a certain extent the chain of karma that has been set in motion by the karma of the previous moment. That is what free will really is, the ability to alter the sequence of karmic fate.” Has BeensMomentsCertainAbilityFateKarmaChainsFree WillSequence Book:Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap
“Every question "runs in a vicious circle" because political life as a whole is an endless chain consisting of an infinite number of links. The whole art of politics lies in finding and taking as firm a grip as we can of the link that is least likely to be struck from our hands, the one that is most important at the given moment, the one that most of all guarantees its possessor the possession of the whole chain.” ArtImportantWholeMomentsHandsRunningPoliticalLyingGivenNumbersFindingsInfinitePossessionCirclesEndlessChainsFirmGuaranteesLinksViciousPolitical LifeVicious Circles Book:What Is to Be Done? Source: What Is to Be Done?
“The fear of AIDS imposes on an act whose ideal is an experience of pure presentness (and a creation of the future) a relation to the past to be ignored at one's peril. Sex no longer withdraws its partners, if only for a moment, from the social. It cannot be considered just a coupling; it is a chain, a chain of transmission, from the past.” IfsMomentsPastSocialSexCreationPureIdealsRelationAidsPartnersChainsIgnoredPerilTransmissionCoupling Author:Susan Sontag
“History, in [Nietzsche's] view, belongs to him who is fighting a great fight, and who needs examples, teachers and comforters, but cannot find them among his contemporaries. Without history the mountain chain of great men's great moments, which runs through millennia, could not stand clearly and vividly before me.” MenNeedsMomentsRunningFightingViewsTeacherExampleMountainChainsGreat MenGreat MomentsComforter Author:Georg Brandes
“Every moment gives birth to the next moment and influences it. Getting out of that chain of perpetual being is getting off the wheel of birth and death. That is enlightenment.” GivingMomentsNextInfluenceBirthEnlightenmentChainsWheelsPerpetualBirth And Death Author:Frederick Lenz
“When a little pleasure has flashed for a moment against the dark, I have made that jewel mine. I have hundreds of them ... I call it my Necklace of Perfect Joy. When the world goes wrong, I have only to close my eyes and remember all the links in my chain, set with gems, some large and some small, but all beautiful with the beauty which never fades. It is all I can take with me when I go. My material possessions must stay behind, but my Necklace of Perfect Joy will bring me happiness to the end, when I put it on, to be nevermore unclasped.” WorldLittlesMadeI CanEndsMomentsEyeBeautifulRememberJoyDarkPerfectPleasureBehindsMinesMaterialsPossessionChainsLinksFadesJewelsGemsMaterial PossessionsNecklacesNevermoreNever Fade Author:Myrtle Reed