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Gautama Buddha teaches that the world is always changing and not permanent. He says our reactions can cloud reality, while compassion and love clear the mind and break hate. He also warns that ignorance and endless cravings create suffering and hide the true nature of life.

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No light is brighter than wisdom. Wisdom is the light in the world.

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The worlds originate so that truth may come and dwell therein.

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The world is continuous flux and is impermanent.

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The greatest action is not conforming with the worlds ways.

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Do not seek perfection in a changing world. Instead, perfect your love.

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Never in the world does hatred cease by hatred; hatred ceases by love.

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Love and serve the world through your work.

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Like the mother of the world, touch each being as your beloved child.

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Whoever has done harmful actions but later covers them up with good is like the moon which, freed from clouds, lights up…

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Hatreds never cease by hatreds in this world. By love alone they cease. This is an ancient Law.

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The world is a looking glass. It gives back to every man a true reflection of his own thoughts. Rule your mind…

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Do not judge yourself harshly. Without mercy for ourselves we cannot love the world.

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For the good of the many, for the happiness of the many, out of compassion for the world.

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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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Full of love for all things in the world, practicing virtue, in order to benefit others, this man alone is happy.

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Follow the way of virtue. Follow the way joyfully through this world and on beyond.

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Whatever suffering there is in this world,all arises from desiring only myself to be happy.And whatever joy there is in this world,all…

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Do not close your eyes before suffering. Find ways to be with those who are suffering by all means, Including personal contact…

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There is no more self-contradictory concept than that of idle thoughts. What gives rise to the perception of a whole world can…

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All that we are is the result of what we have thought; it is founded on our thoughts; it is made up…

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Those... who find delight in freedom from attachment in the renunciation of clinging, free from the inflow of thoughts, they are like…

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There are five things which no one is able to accomplish in this world: first, to cease growing old when he is…

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Thus shall ye think of all this fleeting world: As star at dawn, a bubble in a stream A flash of lightning…

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It is ignorance that smothers, and it is carelessness that makes it invisible. The hunger of craving pollutes the world, and the…

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The wise say that it is not an iron, wooden or fiber fetter which is a strong one, but the besotted hankering…

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What is this world condition? Body is the world condition. And with body and form goes feeling, perception, consciousness, and all the…

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Just as a mother would protect with her life her own son, her only son, so one should cultivate an unbounded mind…

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Pain in life is inevitable but suffering is not. Pain is what the world does to you, suffering is what you do…

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As a net is made up of a series of ties, so everything in this world is connected by a series of…

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In what is seen, there should be just the seen; In what is heard, there should be just the heard; In what…

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The Buddhas, the World-Honored Ones, for one great cause alone appear in the world. The Buddhas, the World-Honored Ones, appear in the…

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The world is full of suffering. Birth is suffering, decre- pitude is suffering, sickness and death are sufferings. To face a man…

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In compassion lies the world's true strength.

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It is your mind that creates the world.

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I do not fight with the world but the world fights with me.

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To him in whom love dwells, the whole world is but one family.

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It is our minds that create this world.

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The more completely we give of ourselves, the more completely the world gives back to us.

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Those who speak much are blamed, those who speak little are blamed. In this world there are none who are not blamed.…

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The world is afflicted by death and decay. But the wise do not grieve, having realized the nature of the world.

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