Karma

"People get into heavy sin and guilt trips, feeling that if things are going wrong, that they are being punished.  That is not the idea at all.   The idea of Karma is that you continually get the teaching that you need to open your heart.   To the degree that you didn't understand in the past how to stop protecting your soft spot, how to stop armoring your heart, you're given this gift of teachings in the form of your life, to give your everything you need to open further."  Pema Chondron