Like fire in a piece of flint, knowledge exists in the mind; suggestion is the friction which brings it out. So with all our feelings and action-our tears and our smiles, our joys and our griefs, our weeping and our laughter, our curses and our blessings, our praises and our blames-every one of these we may find, if we calmly study our own selves, to have been brought out from within ourselves by so many blows. The result is what we are. All these blows taken together are called Karma-work, action. Every mental and physical blow that is given to the soul, by which, as it were, fire is struck from it, and by which its own power and knowledge are discovered, is Karma...
Swami Vivekananda (from the Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda, Volumes 1-9; Kindle Edition)
Karma takes us to the Soul. Life circumstances are blows that help us to unload that which keeps us from realizing Self and experiencing Life fully. Karma is the accumulation of those blows. It is not in our lives to punish us. It is in our lives to free us. It makes us who we are.
All is well!
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