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Carpe
Diem
Seize
the Day
Wasted
Opportunities in this Life
Limitations
Next Time Round.
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This is an
extract from Annie Besant’s article “Karma” in which she firstly points out the
Karmic benefits of making the most of the opportunities that this life
presents. This is followed by a warning that whatever opportunities you have,
if you don’t use them, they will disappear in your next incarnation.
“Service
rendered to the full measure of opportunity in one life will produce, as
effect, enlarged opportunities of service in another; thus one who in a very
limited sphere helped each who came in the way, would in a future life be born
into a position where openings for giving effective help were many and
far-reaching.
Again,
wasted opportunities reappear transmuted as limitations of the instrument, and
as misfortunes in the environment. For instance, the brain of the etheric
double will be built defectively, thus bringing about a defective physical
brain; the ego will plan, but will find itself lacking in executive ability, or
will grasp an idea, but be unable to impress it distinctly on the brain. The
wasted opportunities are transformed into frustrated longings, into desires
which fail to find expression, into yearnings to help, blocked by the
absence of
power to render it, whether from defective capacity or from lack of occasion.”
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This is only a brief extract from “Karma” by Annie Besant, which
is an extensive and comprehensive document on the subject.
Karma by Annie Besant (Complete text)
Just for
the record;
Carpe Diem
(Seize the day) comes from Horace’s Odes. The full quotation is Carpe diem,
quam minimum credula postero, which roughly translated means, Seize the day,
trust little in tomorrow.
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