If you find no one to support you on the spiritual path, walk alone.
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‘All conditioned things are impermanent’ — when one sees this with wisdom, one turns away from suffering.
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I am the miracle.
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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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The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
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Nothing can harm you as much as your own thoughts unguarded.
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Just as the great ocean has one taste, the taste of salt, so also this teaching and discipline has one taste, the taste of liberation.
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Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.
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Just as a mother would protect her only child with her life, even so let one cultivate a boundless love towards all beings.
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Give, even if you only have a little.
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Whatever is not yours: let go of it. Your letting go of it will be for your long-term happiness & benefit.
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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 draw it. Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think. Joy follow a pure thought like a shadow that never leaves.
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You yourself must strive. The Buddhas only point the way.
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It is in the nature of things that joy arises in a person free from remorse.
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Delight in meditation and solitude. Compose yourself, be happy. You are a seeker.
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It is easy to see the faults of others, but difficult to see one’s own faults. One shows the faults of others like chaff winnowed in the wind, but one conceals one’s own faults as a cunning gambler conceals his dice.
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The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
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Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have.
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All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?
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Irrigators channel waters; fletchers straighten arrows; carpenters bend wood; the wise master themselves.
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