"Overcoming yourself is better than overcoming a million enemies in battle."
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"Wear your ego like a loose fitting garment."
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"Don't blindly believe what I say. Don't believe me because others convince you of my words. Don't believe anything you see, read, or hear from others, whether of authority, religious teachers or texts."
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"As you travel though life, offer good wishes to each being you meet."
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"I will teach you the Truth and the Path leading to the Truth."
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"What is most needed is a loving heart."
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"One who, while seeking happiness, oppresses with violence other living beings who also desire happinesss, will not find happiness hereafter."
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"After 48 years, I have said nothing."
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"A raft needed to cross the river is discarded when the other shore is reached, not carried about on one's head."
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"An ignorant man ages like an ox. His flesh may increase, but not his understanding."
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"Just as a line drawn on water with a stick will quickly vanish and will not last long; even so, brahmins, is human life like a line drawn on water. It is short, limited, and brief; it is full of suffering. One should do good and live a pure life; for none who is born can escape death."
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"Those who walk in the Way should avoid sensualism as those who carry hay would avoid coming near the fire."
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"Death carries off a man busy picking flowers with an besotted mind, like a great flood does a sleeping village."
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"The man who wears the yellow-dyed robe but is not free from stains himself, without self-restraint and integrity, is unworthy of the robe."
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"It is in this way that I went forth to teach."
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"Let go the past, let go the future, and let go the present (front, back, middle). Crossing to the farther shore of existence, with mind released everywhere, do not further undergo birth and decay."
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"The big belly can accommodate all kinds of things. The benevolence is never let a dust behind."
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"There are friendships to one who lives in society; thus our present grief arises from having friendships; observing the evils resulting from friendship, let one walk alone like a rhinoceros."
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"The man that is dominated by Anger Doth not know what is seemly and seeth not the Law; That man whom Hate doth accompany, Becometh like unto murky darkness."
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"Go forth in every direction- for the happiness, the harmony, the welfare of the many. Offer your heart, the seeds of understanding, like a lamp overturned and re-lit, illuminating the darkness."
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