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  • If you lead your life the right way, the karma will take care of itself.†   (source)
  • He was a Buddhist and believed in the laws of karma, so it made sense to him that he might pay for his war murders: everything comes back to you, nothing is accidental.†   (source)
  • There were plenty of locals who frowned upon artificially giving the deer a helping hand during the winter-mostly the same people whose gardens were wrecked by those surviving deer in the summer-but for Lacy, there was karma involved.†   (source)
  • It's good karma to do good.†   (source)
  • Acey grew up in Chicago, where both parents were teachers, and she began to do pen-and-ink sketches, she began to do West Indian collages pretty much in the tritest manner possible, according to her own account, and had a sexual adventure with a member of the Black-stone Rangers, a very sizable street gang, and eventually packed a bag and went to Los Angeles, where she married a professor of sociology and enrolled at Cal Arts and got a divorce and found her karma as a painter.†   (source)
  • It tore away from him, the whole weight of it; and as he pulled himself up and through to the light and the breeze and the reality of a new karma (we all shine on), he twisted his head back, for a moment in his agony striving to be Janus— but there was nothing, only plummeting silence, for the boy made no sound.†   (source)
  • Maybe karma is just trying to give me what I said I wanted, but never really did.†   (source)
  • She warned him of the bad karma that would come to him in the next life if he continued his profession.†   (source)
  • 'It's karma,' she'd say to me as we pulled away.†   (source)
  • Then karma and bad luck took us even further, forced further concessions: we lost ground on his side, a few organs died.†   (source)
  • Karma's not like a bank.†   (source)
  • And yes, I'm worried about the state of my soul and karma and blah blah blah, but right now I wanted to live, to come out of this battle alive.†   (source)
  • I thought about dragging the two of them outside and letting them sleep under the bushes, but that could create massive deposits of bad karma for me, and I needed all the help I could get in that department.†   (source)
  • Not as good as thirteen, but no bad karma there.†   (source)
  • Sometimes I think it's more like some long-turning karma that finally came back for us.†   (source)
  • It's all, like, karma.†   (source)
  • Walt once told Waker that everybody in the family must have piled up one helluva lot of bad karma in his past incarnations.†   (source)
  • Cooper's mother, Karma, was only eight months old at the time of his birth.†   (source)
  • Maybe if I collected enough green karma stamps I could put in for dolphin next time around … Everything caught up with me, and I dozed off with the light still burning.†   (source)
  • -un-groovy karma that disrupted the school's educational aura.†   (source)
  • No amount of good karma could make her turn the other cheek today.†   (source)
  • I stare out the passenger window and curse Karma.†   (source)
  • I curse Karma for bringing this hopeless boy into my life just so he could ruin it.†   (source)
  • We were like his karma getting back at him.†   (source)
  • And yeah, I know—my karma's going to come back and get me, too.†   (source)
  • Larry wanted to wait until Karma was older, but Cooper's father got in the way of Larry's plans.†   (source)
  • "It's good karma to save a dog's life!" answered Nate.†   (source)
  • "Okay," Jack said, "I don't know what the heck karma is and I don't know what the heck mitzvah is!"†   (source)
  • The wardens of Karma, to a man, had passed in battle.†   (source)
  • The Lords of Karma performed an autopsy and conferred.†   (source)
  • I received this now ancient body the day Sam broke the Lords of Karma at Mahartha.†   (source)
  • The Shan was visiting with relatives while waiting his appointment with the Masters of Karma.†   (source)
  • But the Lords of Karma would read it from your memory when you stood to a judgment.†   (source)
  • "Do you hear that, Master of Karma?" asked the prince.†   (source)
  • Do you hear me and understand, Lord of Karma?†   (source)
  • The body merchants are become the Masters of Karma, and a part of the Temple structure.†   (source)
  • If I had any bad karma, it should all be dissolved by now.†   (source)
  • We were taken prisoner and the Lords of Karma were to be our judges.†   (source)
  • In his sixtieth year a man passes through the Halls of Karma.†   (source)
  • The four of them left together, knowing the machineries of Karma to have been defeated for a time.†   (source)
  • Do not profane the Palace of Karma with bloodshed.†   (source)
  • "I must speak to the Masters of Karma," he stated.†   (source)
  • Then inquire in the Hall of Karma after your body.†   (source)
  • I have come to speak with the Masters of Karma, and you tell me that I cannot.†   (source)
  • The body merchants are now the Masters of Karma.†   (source)
  • He packed with him all the equipment you had taken from the Hall of Karma.†   (source)
  • Now that the karma idea has caught on, the things are better than tax collectors.†   (source)
  • The Lord of Karma made an ancient and mystical sign behind his back.†   (source)
  • The definition of bad karma is anything our friends the gods don't like.†   (source)
  • The Lords of Karma were called to stand in judgment of the captives.†   (source)
  • They read over your past life, weigh the karma, and determine your life that is yet to come.†   (source)
  • I also didn't want to sell them; I figured their bad karma would extend to any money that we made from them.†   (source)
  • Is hard as it is to do in this moment, I keep my eyes locked on his as I drop my arms, clench the sheets with both fists and thank Karma for bringing this hopeless boy into my life.†   (source)
  • So I would deal with my karma later.†   (source)
  • Karma, dude.†   (source)
  • Karma, who was coal-black with white around her eyes and nose, crept up to him whimpering and crying.†   (source)
  • As he neared the shed where Karma was locked, he saw a largeblack shadow the size of a thin pony streak through the broken door.†   (source)
  • This was the first time he had ever heard Karma make a sound of any kind since Malamutes don't bark, so he was really worried.†   (source)
  • When Larry went out the next morning to see what had happened, he found the door to Karma's hideaway torn from its hinges.†   (source)
  • One night when Karma was in heat for the first time and locked in a strong shed out behind Larry's pottery studio, he heard a loud breaking noise.†   (source)
  • Then he heard Karma scream!†   (source)
  • I saw how the Universe works, I saw the nature of karma and good and evil, positive and negative, and yang and yin…… I understood what all that was and how it all worked …. and it all came out in the same answers.†   (source)
  • How he would settle this matter with the Lords of Karma was his own affair, though none doubted that when the time came he would find a way.†   (source)
  • I knew of only one place where I might get me another body, that being the Pavilion of the Gods of Karma.†   (source)
  • This is so, say the sages, for man must work off his burden of Karma if he is to achieve enlightenment.†   (source)
  • They passed through the town, using side streets, and came after a time to the roadway that led up toward the Palace of the Masters of Karma.†   (source)
  • One day you will seek renewal-so know that the Masters of Karma will seek after this one within every mind that passes through their halls.†   (source)
  • We will do this, if Heaven will sanction Acceleration and religious freedom, and end the reign of the Lords of Karma.†   (source)
  • "You will know the real death," said the Master, "when the wardens of Karma have made dog meat of your horse soldiers."†   (source)
  • They were discarded, they were incomplete, of course; only the Lords of Karma kept up to date life-record tapes on everyone in the Celestial City.†   (source)
  • If they do, we shall walk through the Palace and Hall of the Masters of Karma like a small boy across an extensive and excessively elaborate ant hill.†   (source)
  • Sam sent for Kubera and for Narada to meet him at the Hall of Karma, for it was apparent Olvegg would not be long alive in his present body.†   (source)
  • If you are indeed of the First, Sam, your way must lead you either to deification or extinction, when you face these new Masters of Karma.†   (source)
  • The Lords of Karma were replaced by the Wardens of Transfer, and their function was divorced from the Temples.†   (source)
  • Then his mind went back to the battle at the Hall of Karma, and to the machinery still cached in a secret place.†   (source)
  • I shall tell you of myself, that's how…… I have accumulated too much bad karma to warrant a current transfer.†   (source)
  • I regret that my stay here must be so unexpectedly terminated, but I must ride to put down an uprising in the provinces as soon as I leave the Hall of Karma.†   (source)
  • He winked to put a period to it and continued, "Much of my power is in the form of knowledge, which even the Lords of Karma could not have wrested from me.†   (source)
  • You were offered godhood some years ago in Mahartha, as I recall, and you mocked Brahma, raided the Palace of Karma, and filled all the pray-machines of the city with slugs ….†   (source)
  • But they are all over the place, and the Masters of Karma have stated that a man cannot be made to return as an insect, and the killing of an insect is a karmically inoperative act.†   (source)
  • The Hall of Karma itself was a massive black structure within the courtyard of their palace, where a person applied shortly after judgment to have his transfer made into his new body.†   (source)
  • Bad karma, that's what I said.†   (source)
  • And anyone who happens to be among the First had bloody well better be sure whether he wants quick deification or the pyre when he walks into the Hall of Karma these days.†   (source)
  • He entered the Hall of Karma, requested audience with a representative of the Wheel, was shown into the presence of the Lord, who had had to forego probing him two days before.†   (source)
  • From these he learned that there were only ten Masters of Karma in Mahartha and that they kept their lodgings in a palace on the southeastern slopes above the city.†   (source)
  • "Lord Yama," he stated, "while it may hold for a week, a month — possibly even longer-this story will come apart in the hands of the Master to judge the first of any of those here present in this monastery who pass within the Halls of Karma.†   (source)
  • The columns of mounted men moved forward, passed out through the gates of the Palace of Karma, turned off the roadway and headed up the slope that lay to the southeast of the city of Mahartha, comrades blazing like the dawn at their back.†   (source)
  • "It is barely possible," said one of the Lords of Karma, "that somewhere in the world he had another body, and that he sought to transmigrate by means of a broadcast unit, which was set to destroy itself after use."†   (source)
  • You will report to the Hall of Karma in their company, to claim there the body which Brahma has promised you without the necessity of prior judgment You will remain Siddhartha throughout the transfer, and you will return here in the company of your retainers, to be examined by me.†   (source)
  • Tak of the Archives and the Bright Spear was judged by the Lords of Karma and was transmigrated into the body of an ape; and there was a warning set within his mind that wherever he presented himself for renewal he was to be given again into the body of an ape, to wander the world in this form until such a time as Heaven saw fit to extend its mercy and lift this doom from him.†   (source)
  • Karma they call that transmigration for sins you did in a past life the reincarnation met him pike hoses.†   (source)
  • O.P. must work off bad karma first.†   (source)
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