Do they all mean the same thing?
2006-09-30 09:47:31 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
"Everything happens for a reason" doesn't relate to Karma or the "reaping". Think of it this way. I never considered I'd be where I am today in Los Angeles, leading the best life I can think of, because I never had to the urge to leave my hometown. The urge did not come until something traumatic happened to me. When this happened, I wanted to reminders so I left. The only good that came out of it, was that I am who I am today and am stronger for it. So though it was a bad thing that happened, it led me to here. I think that was the reason for that tragedy.
"You reap what you sow" basically means "you get what you put out." There's a law in the Wiccan religion called the "Three Fold Law." If you send out good energy, good will come. If you send out bad energy, bad will come. You attract what you emit. That kind of thing.
Karma is almost like the above definition, except it transcends lifetimes. Hope that helps.
2006-09-30 09:55:49 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
How can you think they're the same?
Everything happens for a reason is exactly what it says.
That good and bad things have a meaning, even if we don't understand it. So we should accept things as they are.
You reap what you sow. Sow as in plant and grow seeds, reap as in collect from that.
Karma is a word stupid people use when they're trying to sound clever, or have "attitude" when really they don't know what they're talking about, and bastardise it.
2006-09-30 17:05:04 · answer #2 · answered by Fluffy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, we don't contol the "Everything Happen For A Reason,".
We do control " You Reap What You Sow,".
The second one in my opinion controls what kind of Karma you give off.
2006-09-30 16:52:49 · answer #3 · answered by jewingengleman 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
umm its like this. karma is not true. you do good things and good things will happen to you. you reap what you sow is saying that if you trick people and cheat, eventually, you will be cheated and tricked.everything happens for a reason is like if something bad happens, and later something really good happens, you might be able to look back and say hey-if that bad thing hadn't had happened, that really good thing wouldn't have happened
2006-09-30 17:03:23 · answer #4 · answered by maconheira 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No.
Think of a cut gemstone.
Each is a facet intended to define some related meaning.
The reason for things happening is not always that someone must reap what they have sown.
Karma has come to have so many meanings not originally intended that it has become almost meaningless.
I hope that helps.
2006-09-30 16:51:20 · answer #5 · answered by raxivar 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The latter two mean the same thing.
The former "Everything happens for a reason" has more to do with fate. For example, you lose your job. Three weeks later you find your dream job. Losing your job happened for a reason---the reason being, if you had not lost that job, you wouldn't be out looking for work, and you consequently wouldn't have found that dream job.
2006-09-30 16:52:12 · answer #6 · answered by Ana 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hmmm, Do you mean, "Every action creates and equal and opposite reaction?" However not everything that happens is a direct result of something a person did or did not do. The waves lap the shoreline whether we sneeze, keep quite, whether we are good or bad.
Boaz.
2006-09-30 16:55:25 · answer #7 · answered by Boaz 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My favourite is " what goes around, comes around'. But it's all the same, You have to treat the world and others with an open and good heart. Look at what happens to those who are malicious,hateful in nature...they will never know any kind of real happiness.
2006-09-30 16:56:41 · answer #8 · answered by selby 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
read a little book,"as a man thinketh" by james allen
2006-09-30 16:52:31 · answer #9 · answered by Weldon 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋