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"Happiness arises as a result of different causes and conditions. If you harm someone out of anger, you may feel some superficial satisfaction, but deep down you know it was wrong. Your confidence will be undermined. However, if you have an altruistic attitude, you’ll feel comfortable and confident in the presence of others."
"Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost."
"I want to take you to a place of pure magic... It's the place athletes call the "zone". Buddhists call "satori" and ravers call "trance". I call it the Silver Desert. It's a place of pure light that holds the dark within it. It's a place of pure rhythm."
"To utter pleasant words without practicing them, is like a fine flower without fragrance."
"Suffering does not befall him who is without attachment to names and forms."
"There is no satisfying the senses, not even with a shower of money. "The senses are of slight pleasure and really suffering." When a wise man has realised this, he takes no pleasure, as a disciple of the Buddhas, even in the pleasures of heaven. Instead he takes pleasure in the elimination of craving."
"The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground."
"When one drives away the negligent through vigilance, he climbs the heights of wisdom, and can see the suffering masses. Serene, you look upon the lost like one that stands on a mountain sees those that stand upon the plain."
"Don't keep searching for the truth, just let go of your opinions."
"Through violence, you may 'solve' one problem, but you sow the seeds for another."
"In the same way that rain breaks into a house with a bad roof, desire breaks into the mind that has not been practising meditation."
"The cause of all pain and suffering is ignorance."
"Friendship is the only cure for hatred, the only guarantee of peace."
"A person is not learned nor wise because he talks much; the person who is patient, free from hatred and fear, that person is called learned and wise."
"Love is a fleeting emotion, to reach true nirvana one must know themselves and forsake love, for it breeds contempt"
"If you knew what I know about the power of giving, you would not let a single meal pass without sharing it in some way."
"All tremble at violence; all fear death. Putting oneself in the place of another, one should not kill nor cause another to kill."
"Neither my life of luxury in the palace -nor- my life as ascetic in the forest were ways to enlightenment."
"Spend 5 minutes at the beginning of each day remembering we all want the same things (to be happy and be loved) and we are all connected to one another."
"Don't use Buddhism to become a Buddhist. Use Buddhism to become better at whatever else in your life you are doing already."
