Citations:my karma ran over your dogma

English citations of my karma ran over your dogma

• 1982, William S. Burroughs, William S. Burroughs: The Shoaf Collection (University of Virginia Library), The Coevolution Quarterly, Issues 33-36, page 150:

  I'M SORRY, My Karma Ran Over Your Dogma. Anything you want (within wide limits of length and taste) hand-lettered on a button, in your choice of paper and ink color.

• 1992, James F. T. Bugental, The Art of the Psychotherapist, page 240:

  This calls to mind my favorite bumber (sic) sticker: "My karma ran over your dogma."

• 1994, Walt Ratchford, How to Be a Successful Bachelor, A Humorous Guide to Your New Life, page 59:

  One day at work a friend showed me a note that was left on his drafting table. It read, "My Karma ran over your Dogma." He asked, what does this mean? I told him that someone's lifeforce ran over his beliefs.

• 1995, Joyce A. Little, The Church and the Culture War, Secular Anarchy Or Sacred Order, page 112:

  And so, according to the ways of the modenr world, a new button I have just acquired has been created to express this new state of affairs--"My karma ran over your dogma."

• 1996 September 6, “Ten Years in 'The Cage'”, in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, number ?, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: FW. Block and P. Block, Jr., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 7, column ?:

  Friday nights I find my place in line, drink for free; bathroom graffiti like "my karma ran over your dogma," - rescued from tiled obscurity.

• 1997, Bertie Charles Forbes (contributor), Forbes, Volume 159, Issues 1-6, page 76:

  Anytime I hear the word paradigm, I think of the saying carved in university libraries: "My karma ran over your dogma".

• 1998, William Hallberg, The Soul of Golf, page 267:

  Her license plate is from Illinois. A bumper sticker is affixed to the trunk of her Civic: MY KARMA RAN OVER YOUR DOGMA.

• 2001, Michael F. Hoyt, Interviews with Brief Therapy Experts, page 207:

  The other is the famous joke about "Sorry, but my karma ran over your dogma." My path, my way ran over your belief system, if you will, your dogma.

• 2007, Roger LeBlanc, My Dogma Ran Over Your Karma, page 135:

  In the days when it was common to see bumper stickers on cars, one bumper sticker stood out from among the rest that many people identify with, even to this day. It read: My Karma Ran Over Your Dogma.

• 2008, Andrew Krivak, A Long Retreat, In Search of a Religious Life, page 158:

  Signs of that protest (visible all over the city) brought the battle into sharp either-or relief: "Curb Your Dogma" and "My Karma Ran Over Your Dogma," which I found more empty than hurtful.

• 2011, Phineas Mollod, Jason Tesauro, The Modern Gentleman, 2nd Edition, A Guide to Essential Manners, Savvy, and Vice, page 271:

  "My karma ran over your dogma" is well regarded by these gentlemen, though the baffling "I love Quisp" is more singular.

• 2012, Harry Clifford Brown, Harry Clifford Brown, page 31:

  Nor could Greg Woods alone have rewritten the greetings atop the auditorium, some of which were profound--Beer is a brain food, Happy Hanukkah Rednecks, My Karma ran over your Dogma--and some political--Mao loves Dick, McGovern the McPeople, Spuck Firo Agnew.

• 2013, Swami Achuthananda, Many Many Many Gods of Hinduism, page 189:

  It is when circumstances change that you'll hear people say, "My karma ran over your dogma," meaning the negative karma accrued by the actions has come to haunt narrow dogmatic rules."

• 2014, Ellen Cole, Judith Ochshorn, Women's Spirituality, Women's Lives, page 49:

  Poets are the women who cut through dogma (remember the button: "my karma ran over your dogma"! Still makes me laugh.)

• 2014, james burdick, Productive Ruminations, page 183:

  A monk was driving in India when suddenly a dog crosses the road. The car hit and killed the dog. The monk looked around and seeing a temple, went to knock on the door. A monk opened the door. The first monk said: I'm terribly sorry, but my karma ran over your dogma.

• 2015, Eric Michael Mazur, John C. Lyden, The Routledge Companion to Religion and Popular Culture, page 406:

  Of all classical Indian terms associated with Buddhism, karma is without question the one most recognizable to contemporary Americans, as evidenced by its frequent use in popular expressions -- often humorous, such as "my karma ran over your dogma" -- and in popular music.

• 2017, Peter Kreeft, Between One Faith and Another, Engaging Conversations on the World's Great Religions, page 155:

  It's like the pun Hindus say to Christians: "My karma ran over your dogma."

• 2017, Mike Clawson, My Crazy Undercover Life, Secret Agents Battling Evil in America:

  One of my friend's favorite lines is, "I need a check-up from the neck up, because I'm tore-up from the floor up!" One of mine is "My Karma ran over your dogma!"

• 2018, Books on Demand (publisher), My Ladyboy Date, Give Love a Chance, page 269:

  This mishmash of word associations is well illustrated by the once-common bumper sticker "My karma ran over your dogma."

• 2022, Srinivas Shastri, Sri Satya Sai Baba, Love and Truth, Inc., page 40:

  He sang a small intro song before the bhajan (generally not done), which had some of the regular singers looking askance, but as they say, "my karma ran over your dogma"!

• 2023, Robert Poindexter, Who Do You Think You Are? Retaking Control of Our Life:

  You've probably heard that old cliche, "What goes around comes around" or "my karma ran over your dogma." The reality is, they're both and make a lot of difference in our life.

• 2024, Swami Tyagananda, Walking the Walk:

  Recently in Boston I saw a car ahead of me with a bumper-sticker proclaiming, "Good karma is cost effective." A friend reported another that said "My karma ran over your dogma."