"Your mind is a powerful thing. When you filter it with positive thoughts, your life will start to change."
"In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves. This is a helpful pointer for our everyday presence-practice. Can you catch yourself angrily defending your point of view or attacking the other person's? There's the ego."
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Source: Gautama Buddha (2017). “Zen Puppies: Meditations for the Wise Minds of Puppy Lovers”, p.171, Mango Media Inc.
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