"If the mind be fixed on the acquirement of any object, that object will be attained."
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"For one who is a learner and who has not yet come to master their mind, but who dwells aspiring for peace from that which binds, making it a matter concerning himself, I know of no other thing as helpful as giving close attention to the mind."
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"Happiness never decreased by being shared."
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"Hate never ends hate. Only love can."
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"Here even the various mind-pleasing blossoming flowers, and attractive shining supreme golden houses, have no inherently existent maker at all. They are set up through the power of thought. Through the power of conceptuality the world is established"
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"Believe there is good in the world."
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"If a man going down into a river, swollen and swiftly flowing, is carried away by the current - how can he help others across?"
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"To eat meat is just a habit after we were born. In fact, we are not born to eat meat."
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"Truth is always truth, untruth is always untruth. This is what matters, this is right desire."
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"But when one masters this wretched desire, which is so hard to overcome, then one's sorrows just drop off, like a drop of water off a lotus."
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"Long is the night to him who is awake; long is a mile to him who is tired; long is life to the foolish who do not know the true law."
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"The fiercest fire is hatred."
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"Few are those among men who have crossed over to the other shore, while the rest of mankind runs along the bank. However those who follow the principles of the well-taught Truth will cross over to the other shore, out of the dominion of Death, hard though it is to escape."
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"He who slings mud loses ground."
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"I have the body of a GOD"
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"Wish I am free from barriers when I die, and Buddha will welcome me from far away."
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"My whole life, I never spoke a single-word."
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"Cut down the forest, not just a tree. Out of the forest of desire springs danger. By cutting down both the forest of desire and the brushwood of longing, be rid of the forest, bhikkhus."
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"One who is unrestrained in life-delusion overcomes; as the wind a weak tree."
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"Men give up one thing to take up another, but in spite of numerous changes they do not find peace. They are no better than monkeys who let go one bough to take hold of another, only to let it go again."
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