Karma is accident (Zufall in German): that which befalls you. At least in appearance. I cannot produce it myself—only experience it as “instant.” Why? Human action disturbs the harmony of the world and is answered: every action meets its response. It befalls those who acted, as their world. Accident is karma.
Karma is doing (in Sanskrit). Karma means: beholding action within the whole. What still needs to be experienced. What needs to be done. In karma’s gaze, the forgotten deed appears as the cause of my experience of the world. It connects incarnations and illuminates the traces of the gods within a life’s unfolding. Doing is karma.
Karma is opportunity (in anthroposophy). At the moment karma speaks—the echo of my deeds—the threads of that same deed unite anew. Usually people. Everyone and everything comes together. A template. An invitation. I can repeat, release, connect, and take a new direction. Opportunity is karma.
Translation Laura Liska
Image Karo Kollwitz, Cutting edge, 2014
Correction (March 18, 2026): At the author’s request, the translation has been revised.
only in English, is the ‘human’ joined with the ‘Being’ but BEING’s are what we should become ..