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- When you say something really unkind, when you do something in retaliation your anger increases. You make the other person suffer, and he will try…
- From time to time, to remind ourselves to relax and be peaceful, we may wish to set aside some time for a retreat, a day…
- At any moment, you have a choice, that either leads you closer to your spirit or further away from it.
- Happiness does not come from consumption of things.
- Our notions about happiness entrap us. We forget that they are just ideas. Our idea of happiness can prevent us from actually being happy. We…
- If a child smiles, if an adult smiles, that is very important. If in our daily lives we can smile, if we can be peaceful…
- When our beliefs are based on our own direct experience of reality and not on notions offered by others, no one can remove these beliefs…
- Due to attachment, anger, and foolishness, I have committed numberless mistakes in speech, deed and thought. I bow my head and repent. I vow from…
- Anxiety, the illness of our time, comes primarily from our inability to dwell in the present moment.
- If we are free from attachment, we can easily recognize ourselves in other people, in different forms of manifestation, and then we don't have to…
- Meditation is not to escape from society, but to come back to ourselves and see what is going on. Once there is seeing, there must…
- Fear, separation, hate and anger come from the wrong view that you and the Earth are two separate entities, the Earth is only the environment.…
- We have the tendency to run away from suffering and to look for happiness. But, in fact, if you have not suffered, you have no…
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- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle