Karma is fortune (in German). At least it appears so. I cannot create it myself, only experience it in an instance. Why? Human actions disturb the harmony of the world and are balanced out: every action is met with a response. The response comes to the acting individuals as their world. Fortune is karma.
Karma is action (in Sanskrit). Karma means: seeing what is actionable in the world’s interrelationships. What still needs to be experienced. What needs to be done. From the perspective of karma, forgotten actions appear as the reasons for my experience of the world. They connect incarnations and illuminate the traces of the gods in the course of life. Action is karma.
Karma is opportunity (in anthroposophy). At the moment when karma speaks—the echo of my action—the threads of that same action unite anew. Usually people. Everyone and everything comes together. A proposition. An invitation. I can repeat, release, reconnect, and take a new direction. Opportunity is karma.
Translation Laura Liska
Image Karo Kollwitz, Cutting edge, 2014
