Purity and impurity depend on oneself; no one can purify another.
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Siddhartha
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All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?
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May all beings have happy minds.
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There is no path to happiness. Happiness is the path.
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Irrigators channel waters; fletchers straighten arrows; carpenters bend wood; the wise master themselves.
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Whatever precious jewel there is in the heavenly worlds, there is nothing comparable to one who is Awakened.
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If you meditate earnestly, pure in mind and kind in deeds, leading a disciplined life in harmony with the dharma, you will grow in glory. If you meditate earnestly, through spiritual disciplines you can make an island for yourself that no flood can overwhelm.
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There is no fire like passion. There is no shark like hatred. There is no snare like folly. There is no torrent like greed.
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Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.
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Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes.
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What you are is what you have been. What you’ll be is what you do now.
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If with a pure mind a person speaks or acts, happiness follows him like his never-departing shadow.
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Faith and prayer both are invisible, but they make impossible things possible.
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In whom there is no sympathy for living beings: know him as an outcast.
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One who acts on truth is happy in this world and beyond.
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When you attain victory over yourself, not even the gods can turn it into defeat.
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One moment can change a day, one day can change a life, and one life can change the world.
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Not by rituals and resolutions, nor by much learning, nor by celibacy, nor even by meditation can you find the supreme, immortal joy of nirvana until you extinguish your self-will.
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Speak only endearing speech, speech that is welcomed. Speech, when it brings no evil to others, is a pleasant thing.
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What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our life is the creation of our mind.
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