"Pain in life is inevitable but suffering is not."
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"This Ariyan Eightfold Path, that is to say: Right view, right aim, right speech, right action, right living, right effort, right mindfulness, right contemplation."
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"Read as few words as you like, and speak fewer, but act upon the law."
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"Chase after money and security and your heart will never unclench."
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"The worlds originate so that truth may come and dwell therein."
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"Unkind people spread malicious tales, and well-intentioned people also censure; but in either case the tranquil sage remains unconcerned. Nowhere is there to be found a disconcerted sage."
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"Conquer a liar with truth."
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"There is only one time when it is essential to awaken. That time is now."
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"Before you've seen it, and when you first see it, it is the greatest thing; afterwards, it is ordinary."
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"The mind is pure and luminous by nature. It is defiled only by adventitious thoughts and emotions"
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"He who wrongs the innocent must bear the fruit of his act, like dust flung against the wind."
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"To support mother and father, to cherish wife and children, and to be engaged in peaceful occupation - this is the greatest blessing."
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"We will develop love, we will practice it, we will make it both a way and a basis."
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"Watering the flowers and the trees, whispering to them, talking to them. Then, they will grow to be more bright and luxuriant."
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"To master the pride of defiant selfhood, that in truth is the highest bliss."
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"O how sweet it is to enjoy life, Living in honesty and strength! And wisdom is sweet, And freedom."
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"For innumerable reasons, Mahamati, the Bodhisattva, whose nature is compassion, is not to eat any meat."
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"From craving is born grief, from craving is born fear. For one freed from craving there's no grief- so how fear?"
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"Overcome the angry by non-anger; overcome the wicked by goodness; overcome the miser by generosity; overcome the liar by truth."
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"Free from passion and desire, you have stripped the thorns from the stem."
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