Don’t run after pleasure and neglect the practice of meditation. If you forget the goal of life and get caught in the pleasures of the world, you will come to envy those who put meditation first.
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True charity occurs only when there are no notions of giving, giver, or gift.
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Resolutely train yourself to attain peace.
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Silence the angry man with love. Silence the ill-natured man with kindness. Silence the miser with generosity. Silence the liar with truth.
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Know from the rivers in clefts and in crevices: those in small channels flow noisily, the great flow silent. Whatever’s not full makes noise. Whatever is full is quiet.
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Nothing can harm you as much as your own thoughts unguarded.
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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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The one who has conquered himself is a far greater hero than he who has defeated a thousand times a thousand men.
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To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one’s own in the midst of abundance.
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Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.
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All that we are is the result of what we have thought.
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It is in the nature of things that joy arises in a person free from remorse.
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If with a pure mind a person speaks or acts, happiness follows them like a never-departing shadow.
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Good people keep on walking whatever happens. They do not speak vain words and are the same in good fortune and bad. If one desires neither children nor wealth nor power nor success by unfair means, know such a one to be good, wise, and virtuous.
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You yourself must strive. The Buddhas only point the way.
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Radiate boundless love towards the entire world.
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Leave behind confused reactions and become patient as the earth; unmoved by anger, unshaken as a pillar, unperturbed as a clear and quiet pool.
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A mind unruffled by the vagaries of fortune, from sorrow freed, from defilements cleansed, from fear liberated — this is the greatest blessing.
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If anything is worth doing, do it with all your heart.
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She who knows life flows, feels no wear or tear, needs no mending or repair.
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