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- These days people don't search for the Truth. People study simply in order to find knowledge necessary to make a living, raise families and look…
- All religions are like different cars all moving in the same direction. People who don't see it have no light in their hearts.
- Do not be a bodhisattva, do not be an arahant, do not be anything at all. If you are a bodhisattva, you will suffer, if…
- A woman wanted to know how to deal with anger. I asked when anger arose whose anger it was. She said it was hers. Well,…
- Try to be mindful, and let things take their natural course. Then your mind will become still in any surroundings, like a clear forest pool.…
- If you want to understand suffering you must look into the situation at hand. The teachings say that wherever a problem arises it must be…
- Of course there are dozens of meditation techniques, but it all comes down to this - just let it all be. Step over here where…
- Where does rain come from? It comes from all the dirty water that evaporates from the earth, like urine and the water you throw out…
- We say that to 'give up all evil and to develop the good' is the heart of the Buddha's teaching. If we only make merit…
- The Dhamma has to sink deeply into the mind so that whatever we do, the mind has always goodness within it. All the ways of…
- To observe and watch one's own mind is something really interesting. The untrained mind will run and follow its old habit patterns. Because it has…
- When we conquer ourselves, then everything will be conquered: oneself, others, and all the sense objects as well, coming in by way of the eyes,…
- The mind of one who practises doesn't run away anywhere, it stays right there. Good, evil, happiness and unhappiness, right and wrong arise, and he…
- Learn to see that it is not things that bother us, that we go out to bother them. See the world as a mirror. It…
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- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle