"To give up doing evil is more important…" — Ajahn Chah

"To give up doing evil is more important than making merit."

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82 Quotes by Ajahn Chah

Ajahn Chah has 82 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

There are two kinds of suffering. There is the suffering you run away from, which follows you everywhere. And there…
The ultimate truth is like the flavour of an apple which you can't see with the eye or hear with…
When sitting in meditation, say, "That's not my business!" with every thought that comes by.
Meditation is like a single log of wood. Insight and investigation are one end of the log; calm and concentration…
Practicing meditation is just like breathing. While working we breathe, while sleeping we breathe, while sitting down we breathe... Why…
Do everything with a mind that lets go. Do not expect praise or reward.
When we see beyond self, we no longer cling to happiness. And when we stop clinging, we can begin to…
Only one book is worth reading: the heart.
These days people don't search for the Truth. People study simply in order to find knowledge necessary to make a…
Mindfulness is life. Whenever we don’t have mindfulness, when we are heedless, it’s as if we are dead.
Peace is within oneself to be found in the same place as agitation and suffering. It is not found in…
Whenever we feel that we are definitely right, so much so that we refuse to open up to anything or…

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More Evil Quotes

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Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite… — Hannah Arendt
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good… — Hannah Arendt
Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil. — Aristotle
No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye. — Aristotle
The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil… — Aristotle
The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to… — Chester A. Arthur
Guns are evil! And very little good comes from the availability of a bullet designed to kill human beings! — Mackenzie Astin
Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good. — Wystan Hugh Auden
The greatest evil is physical pain. — Saint Augustine
He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he… — Saint Augustine
God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist. — Saint Augustine

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