In separateness lies the world’s greatest misery; in compassion lies the world’s true strength.
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As an elephant in the battlefield withstands arrows shot from bows all around, even so shall I endure abuse.
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Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.
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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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Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.
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Irrigators channel waters; fletchers straighten arrows; carpenters bend wood; the wise master themselves.
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The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.
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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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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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Resolutely train yourself to attain peace.
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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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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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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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Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.
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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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I am the miracle.
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Should you find a wise critic to point out your faults, follow him as you would a guide to hidden treasure.
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It is better to do nothing, than to do what is wrong. For whatever you do, you do to yourself.
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Nothing can harm you as much as your own thoughts unguarded.
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May all beings have happy minds.
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Hatred is never appeased by hatred in this world. By non-hatred alone is hatred appeased. This is a law eternal.
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Meditate. Do not delay, lest you later regret it.
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Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
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Health is the best gift, contentment the best wealth, trust the best kinsman, nirvana the greatest joy. Drink the nectar of the dharma in the depths of meditation, and become free from fear and sin.
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Be where you are; otherwise you will miss your life.
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Everything that happens to us is the result of what we ourselves have thought, said, or done. We alone are responsible for our lives.
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We will develop love, we will practice it, we will make it both a way and a basis…
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As an elephant in the battlefield withstands arrows shot from bows all around, even so shall I endure abuse.
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Conquer anger with non-anger. Conquer badness with goodness. Conquer meanness with generosity. Conquer dishonesty with truth.
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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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Delight in heedfulness! Guard well your thoughts!
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It is better to do nothing, than to do what is wrong. For whatever you do, you do to yourself.
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We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.
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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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Everything that happens to us is the result of what we ourselves have thought, said, or done. We alone are responsible for our lives.
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Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.
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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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There is no fear for one whose mind is not filled with desires.
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He who can curb his wrath as soon as it arises, as a timely antidote will check snake’s venom that so quickly spreads — such a monk gives up the here and the beyond, just as a serpent sheds its worn-out skin.
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He who can curb his wrath as soon as it arises, as a timely antidote will check snake’s venom that so quickly spreads — such a monk gives up the here and the beyond, just as a serpent sheds its worn-out skin.
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