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The discipline which I have imparted to you will lead you when I am gone. Practice mindfulness diligently, to attain the goal of awakening. — Gautama Buddha
For fear of causing terror to living beings, Mahamati, let the Bodhisattva who is disciplining himself to attain compassion, refrain from eating flesh. — Gautama Buddha
Whether or not enlightenment is a plausible goal for us is a vital question for our lives. If it is possible for us to attain… — Robert Thurman
Let fire and the cross; let the crowds of wild beasts; let tearings ... let shatterings of the whole body; and let all the evil… — Ignatius of Antioch
What is essential to practice the Tao is to get rid of cravings and vexations. If these afflictions are not removed, it is impossible to… — Unknown Author
No man can attain to the knowledge of God but by humility. The way to mount high is to descend. — Unknown Author
The human heart is an idol factory that takes good things like a successful career, love, material possessions, even family, and turns them into ultimate… — Timothy Keller
Not merely by rules of conduct and religious observances, nor by much learning either, nor even by attainment of concentration, nor by sleeping alone, do… — Gautama Buddha
Whatever thought grips the mind at the time of death is the one which will propel it and decide for it the nature of its… — Stephen Mitchell
If it is the mark of the artist to love art before everything, to renounce everything for its sake, to think all the sweet human… — Ellen Terry
In truth, to attain to interior peace, one must be willing to pass through the contrary to peace. Such is the teaching of the Sages. — Swami Brahmananda
The goal of climbing big, dangerous mountains should be to attain some sort of spiritual and personal growth, but this won't happen if you compromise… — Yvon Chouinard
If you can attain repose and calm, believe that you have seized happiness. — Jeanne Julie Eleonore de Lespinasse
No matter the style, the farther one goes the more obstacles increase, and the more distant appears the object it is desired to attain. Again,… — Jean-Georges Noverre
Without dancing you can never attain a perfectly graceful carriage, which is of the highest importance in life. — Benjamin Disraeli
The embryological record is almost always abbreviated in accordance with the tendency of nature (to be explained on the principle of survival of the fittest)… — Francis Maitland Balfour
The excitement of life is in the numinous experience wherein we are given to each other in that larger celebration of existence in which all… — Thomas Berry
To attain his dream, the warrior of light needs a strong will and an enormous capacity for acceptance. — Paulo Coelho
The obligation to earn one's bread by the sweat of one's brow also presumes the right to do so. A society in which this right… — Pope John Paul II
Christianity set itself the goal of fulfilling manâ€™s unattainable desires, but for that very reason ignored his attainable desires. By promising man eternal life, it… — Ludwig Feuerbach

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