"It is better to do nothing Than to do what is wrong. For whatever you do, you do to yourself."
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"Why do what you will regret? Why bring tears upon yourself? Do only what you do not regret, And fill yourself with joy."
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"Attachment leads to suffering."
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"When words are both true and kind, they can change the world."
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"From eating meat arrogance is born, from arrogance erroneous imaginations issue, and from imagination is born greed; and for this reason refrain from eating meat."
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"What is this world condition? Body is the world condition. And with body and form goes feeling, perception, consciousness, and all the activities throughout the world. The arising of form and the ceasing of form-everything that has been heard, sensed, and known, sought after and reached by the mind-all this is the embodied world, to be penetrated and realized."
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"Hatred is never appeased by hatred in this world. By non-hatred alone is hatred appeased. This is a law eternal."
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"People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?"
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"When you refrain from habitual thoughts and behavior, the uncomfortable feelings will still be there. They don’t magically disappear. Over the years, I’ve come to call resting with the discomfort “the detox period,” because when you don’t act on your habitual patterns, it’s like giving up an addiction. You’re left with the feelings you were trying to escape. The practice is to make a wholehearted relationship with that"
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"A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter."
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"Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time. Hatred ceases through love. This is an unalterable law."
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"Let your love flow outward through the universe, To its height, its depth, its broad extent, A limitless love, without hatred or enmity. Then as you stand or walk, Sit or lie down, As long as you are awake, Strive for this with a one-pointed mind; Your life will bring heaven to earth."
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"A kind man who makes good use of wealth is rightly said to possess a great treasure; but the miser who hoards up his riches will have no profit."
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"Speak only the speech that neither torments self nor does harm to others. That speech is truly well spoken."
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"Whoever doesn't flare up at someone who's angry wins a battle hard to win."
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"Let him the intelligent man admonish, let him teach, let him forbid what is improper ! - he will be beloved of the good, by the bad he will be hated."
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"There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed."
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"Through effort you will cross any raging flood, through energy you will pass any sorrow."
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"Thus all things are subject to death, sorrow and suffering. I became aware that I too was of the same nature, the nature of beginning and end. What if I searched for that which underlies all creation, that which is nirvana, the perfect freedom from unconditioned existence?"
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"Therefore, be ye lamps unto yourselves, be ye a refuge to yourselves. Hold fast to the truth as a lamp; hold fast as a refuge to the truth. Look not for refuge to anyone besides yourselves."
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