"Karma is a bitch" and other variations of that expressing the western world's misconception of karma as "what goes around comes around" or "you get what you deserve" as opposed to what karma is really about, which is intentions, and bad karma does not lead to punishment but rather can lead to lesson plans to settle a karmic debt. The effects of bad karma deposited in this life are much more likely felt in a future incarnation than as reverberations in the present life. Similarly, one is not likely rewarded for good karma in the present life other than settling a karmic debt. This leads me into one of my biggest pet peeves--the supposed law of attraction. Does positive/light energy attract positive energy--sure. Does negative/dark energy attract negative energy--sure. However, positive energy also attracts negative energy and that is why narcissists, aka emotional vampires, easily hunt and prey upon empaths. I cannot stand how people who cling to the LOA end up victim blaming by saying that one who experiences hardship in life must have been vibrating negatively and brought it upon themselves. It's like the way Christian religions use original sin to resolve their view of an otherwise benevolent and interventionist supreme being that allows suffering. Then there are the con artists, like Tony Robbins and others encouraging people to manifest their desires with vision boards and to cover their boards with their desires, and people cover them with pictures of big houses, fancy cars, expensive clothes, yachts, etc. These are all attachments that do not provide happiness, and thus vision boards are an obvious perversion of a spiritual concept for material gain.