Kyriacos C. Markides quotes

“After Daskalos returned to his armchair and was getting ready to continue our discussion I asked him whether the affliction of that man was due to karmic debts.”
-- Kyriacos C. Markides

Source : Kyriacos C. Markides (1985). “The Magus of Strovolos: The Extraordinary World of a Spiritual Healer”, London ; Boston : Arkana

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“By reacting to aggression with aggression we lose the opportunity to spiritually benefit from the experience.”
-- Kyriacos C. Markides

Source : Kyriacos C. Markides (2002). “The Mountain of Silence: A Search for Orthodox Spirituality”, p.222, Image

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“You cannot fail unless you quit.”

“It is every man's obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it.”

“As a writer, its important to stay true to your story without giving a hoot about publishers, critics and readers. You should do your karma as an author the way you want to, and rest is up to God.”

“I used to steal a lot. But I don't do that anymore, because I believe in karma.”

“Depending on which day, and how I am feeling on that day, I have a different favorite song on the album. One day it might be 'Karma', and other days it is 'Stay For A While'”

“Every action has equal and opposite reaction. This is law of the universe and spares none. Wrong done and injustice inflicted is paid back in the same coin. No one has escaped justice of the universe. It is only a matter of time.”

“Karma brings us ever back to rebirth, binds us to the wheel of births and deaths. Good Karma drags us back as relentlessly as bad, and the chain which is wrought out of our virtues holds as firmly and as closely as that forged from our vices.”

“I'm a great believer in karma, and the vengeance that it serves up to those who are deliberately mean is generally enough for me.”

“God wants us to speak to men so that they will feel it, so that they will never forget it. God means every Christian to be effective, to make a difference in the actual records and results of Christian work. God put each of us here to be a power. There is not one of us but is an essential wheel of the machinery and can accomplish all that God calls us to.”

“It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow.”