"Do not believe in anything simply because you……" — Buddha
"Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it."
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90 Quotes by Buddha
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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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Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you…
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The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
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Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death.
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Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines…
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Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice…
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If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets,…
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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.
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I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a…
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But the leaders of the OIC could not even accept Mahathir's proposal, yet they talk about respect and honour.
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Any man who does not accept the conditions of life sells his soul.
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I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity.
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