"As you walk and eat and travel, be where you are. Otherwise you will miss most of your life."
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"Crying with the wise is better than laughing with the fool."
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"All that we are is the result of what we have thought; what we think we become."
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"Everything is based on mind, is led by mind, is fashioned by mind. If you speak and act with a polluted mind, suffering will follow you, as the wheels of the oxcart follow the footsteps of the ox. Everything is based on mind, is led by mind, is fashioned by mind. If you speak and act with a pure mind, happiness will follow you, as a shadow clings to a form."
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"You are far from the end of your journey. The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart. See how you love."
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"Buddha was speaking in a village square one day, when one of the inhabitants started to abuse him. Buddha paused and said to the man, "If you offer me a piece of paper and I refuse to accept it, what happens to the paper?" "Why, it stays with me, of course," the villager replied. Buddha smiled gently, "And that is exactly what I am doing with your abuse," he said. "I am not accepting it, therefore it stays with you.""
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""All conditioned things are impermanent" - when one sees this with wisdom, one turns away from suffering."
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"In our lives, change is unavoidable, loss is unavoidable. In the adaptability and ease with which we experience change, lies our happiness and freedom."
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"My teaching is not a philosophy. It is the result of direct experience... My teaching is a means of practice, not something to hold onto or worship. My teaching is like a raft used to cross the river. Only a fool would carry the raft around after he had already reached the other shore of liberation."
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"With our thoughts we make the world."
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"Nirvana is this moment seen directly. There is no where else than here. The only gate is now. The only doorway is your own body and mind. There’s nowhere to go. There’s nothing else to be. There’s no destination. It’s not something to aim for in the afterlife. It’s simply the quality of this moment."
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"Nothing is forever except change."
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"Suffering is wishing things were other than they are."
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"Meditate. Live purely. Be quiet. Do your work with mastery. Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine."
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"Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts. Develop the mind of equilibrium. You will always be getting praise and blame, but do not let either affect the poise of the mind: follow the calmness, the absence of pride."
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"Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think. Suffering follows an evil thought as the wheels of a cart follow the oxen that draws it. Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think. Joy follows a pure thought like a shadow that never leaves."
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"The whole secret of existence is to have no fear."
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"Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life."
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"Do not think lightly of good, that nothing will come of it. A whole water pot will fill up from dripping drops of water."
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"Know well what holds you back, and what moves you forward"
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