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I know that most of you know about ‘karma‘, the Sanskrit word for action (also check the merriam-webster.com definition which I blogged last year, the picture in that post (below) was a 1,000 times easier to understand 🙂 ).

Below are 12 little less known Laws of Karma that will change your life! (if you read, comprehend and follow! 🙂 )

THE GREAT LAW
– “As you sow, so shall you reap”. This is also known as the “Law of Cause and Effect”.
– Whatever we put out in the Universe is what comes back to us.
– If what we want is Happiness, Peace, Love, Friendship… Then we should BE Happy, Peaceful, Loving and a True Friend.

THE LAW OF CREATION
– Life doesn’t just HAPPEN, it requires our participation.
– We are one with the Universe, both inside and out.
– Whatever surrounds us gives us clues to our inner state.
– BE yourself, and surround yourself with what you want to have present in your Life.

THE LAW OF HUMILITY
– What you refuse to accept, will continue for you.
– If what we see is an enemy, or someone with a character trait that we find to be negative, then we ourselves are not focused on a higher level of existence.

THE LAW OF GROWTH
– “Wherever you go, there you are”.
– For us to GROW in Spirit, it is we who must change – and not the people, places or things around us.
– The only given we have in our lives is OURSELVES and that is the only factor we have control over.
– When we change who and what we are within our heart our life follows suit and changes too

THE LAW OF RESPONSIBILITY
– Whenever there is something wrong in my life, there is something wrong in me.
– We mirror what surrounds us
– and what surrounds us mirrors us; this is a Universal Truth.
– We must take responsibility what is in our life.

THE LAW OF CONNECTION
– Even if something we do seems inconsequential, it is very important that it gets done as everything in the Universe is connected.
– Each step leads to the next step, and so forth and so on.
– Someone must do the initial work to get a job done.
– Neither the first step nor the last are of greater significance,
– As they were both needed to accomplish the task.
– Past-Present-Future they are all connected…

THE LAW OF FOCUS
– You can not think of two things at the same time.
– When our focus is on Spiritual Values, it is impossible for us to have lower thoughts such as greed or anger.

THE LAW OF GIVING AND HOSPITALITY
– If you believe something to be true,then sometime in your life you will be called upon to demonstrate that particular truth.
– Here is where we put what we CLAIM that we have learned, into actual PRACTICE.

THE LAW OF HERE AND NOW
– Looking backward to examine what was, prevents us from being totally in the HERE AND NOW.
– Old thoughts, old patterns of behavior, old dreams…
– Prevent us from having new ones.

THE LAW OF CHANGE
– History repeats itself until we learn the lessons that we need to change our path.

THE LAW OF PATIENCE AND REWARD
– All Rewards require initial toil.
– Rewards of lasting value require patient and persistent toil.
– True joy follows doing what we’re suppose to be doing, and waiting for the reward to come in on its own time.

THE LAW OF SIGNIFICANCE AND INSPIRATION
– You get back from something whatever YOU have put into it.
– The true value of something is a direct result of the energy and intent that is put into it.
– Every personal contribution is also a contribution to the Whole.
– Lack luster contributions have no impact on the Whole, nor do they work to diminish it.
– Loving contributions bring life to, and inspire, the Whole.

(via Raven Emrys)

Ralph Waldo Emerson: “Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.”

Hahaha, check out this YouTube video; very funny to see humans acting like dogs. It is actually interesting to consider that most people think it sweet when a dog acts like this, while they would most likely freak out if a fellow human would behave like this! 🙂

Real Live Preacher: “One of the joys we have in being human is in exercising our freedom to choose and to take each case as it comes to us. We are not robots who are forced into behaviors by their programming. We see things; we think about things; and we choose our course of action or beliefs appropriately. And as long as that remains true of us, we will live every day of our lives on one slippery slope or another. There is no reason to fear this.”

It amazes me every year; the amount of light outside here ‘up North’ at midnight around this time of year! (Ha, and the Oslo region does not even have the full midnight sun!)

Experiencing that is still on my bucket list (I crossed off the Northern Light last February 🙂 ), though I think that the trip to the true midnight sun area even more ‘up North’ will have to wait until next year; no time the coming months…it is still lovely though to come back home and be able to enjoy longgggg nights in lovely summer weather! 🙂

Oprah Winfrey: “I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace – a connection to what matters.”

It is one of the oldest questions in the world; what came first, the chicken or the egg? A chicken and an egg (Kevin) took it to the test and found the answer…ROTFLMAO!!! 🙂

If you want to go through a more serious approach to ‘the’ answer, watch the 3.5 fast-talking minute animated Youtube video below in which Mitchell Moffit and Gregory Brown from AASP Science provide ‘the’ answer. They use use a quasi-scientific multi-angled approach to answer this nearly 2000-year-old question and teach a little about evolution, nice.

However, there is no one single answer in a world that apparently strives for complexity, so try this, this, this or this link if you want to get to the bottom of it! 🙂

Anatole France: “To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.”

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: “There are two main strategies we can adopt to improve the quality of life. The first is to try making external conditions match our goals. The second is to change how we experience external conditions to make them fit our goals better.”

My mother turns 65 today, so it is PARTYYYY time! 🙂

Hehe, every time I mention that my mother turns 65, people tell me ‘wow, you have such a young mother’…I believe this has to do with her looking so young, not me looking old! 🙂

Happy Birthday Mom, I love you!

The traditional opening of ‘my’ festival season, the Parkfeest in Oosterhout, is today! I won’t be there for the full weekend as previous years as there is a different festival setup (just Saturday evening and the full Sunday) AND, my mother’s 65th Birthday tomorrow. 🙂 The bands playing today are less known, so instead of ‘moshpitting‘ in front of the stage 🙂 , it will be the winning combination of live music ‘in the background’, ‘some’ beers 🙂 and overall good friends; a guarantee for a great party!

Aaron Burr: “Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done.”

The long winter nights are replaced by even longer sunny summer days, and even though the Northern Light is hard to beat, it does require the sky to be dark in order to see it. In other words; the winterish magical Northern Lights header graphic has to go…

…and will be replaced by one supporting the dutch soccer team in pursuit of eternal fame during the FIFA World Cup Brazil. The first match for the Dutch Lions (against Spain) starts in about half an hour and the header graphic will be up for as long as ‘we’ are competing in the tournament! (which is July 13 according to optimists 🙂 )

James Joyce: “Mistakes are the portals of discovery.”

The FIFA World Cup Brazil starts today and kicks of a months of soccer madness and patriotisme. The best players of the world will hopefully entertain millions and millions of people with their fantastic skills. It turns out though that the best skilled players are found ‘on the streets’; see for yourself in YouTube video below…amaaaaaazing!! 🙂

Jane Goodall: “I think the best evenings are when we have messages, things that make us think, but we can also laugh and enjoy each other’s company.”

Ernest Hemingway: “I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently.”

Developments in various forms sustainable energy to power our modern world ‘needs’, the initiative of Solar (FREAKIN’) Roadways is one of the most interesting I have seen lately. Solar power in general rules as it has the opportunity to become one the least ‘disrupting’ forms of sustainable energy; in general I don’t understand why roofs are not build with solar panel instead of tiles…let the sun shine! 🙂

For now, enjoy the video below and keep in mind; the future is near! 🙂

Dorothy Sarnoff: “Make sure you have finished speaking before your audience has finished listening.”

Sean O’Faolain: “There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen.”