PEOPLE GET INTO A HEAVY-DUTY sin and guilt trip, feeling
that if things are going wrong, that means that they did something
bad and they are being punished. That’s not the idea at all. The idea
of karma is that you continually get the teachings that you need to
open your heart. To the degree that you didn’t understand in the
past how to stop protecting your soft spot, how to stop armoring
your heart, you’re given this gift of teachings in the form of your life,
to give you everything you need to open further.”
~Pema Chödrön on karma,
from “Start Where You Are”
Tags: karma, pema chodron
