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- To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are…
- Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk…
- As you walk and eat and travel, be where you are. Otherwise you will miss most of your life.
- Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
- Meditate. Live purely. Be quiet. Do your work with mastery. Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine.
- In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant…
- Life can only take place in the present moment. If we lose the present moment, we lose life.
- Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.
- Like a mother who protects her child, her only child, with her own life, one should cultivate a heart of unlimited love and compassion towards…
- Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
- Let your love flow outward through the universe, To its height, its depth, its broad extent, A limitless love, without hatred or enmity. Then as…
- Just as a mother would protect with her life her own son, her only son, so one should cultivate an unbounded mind towards all beings,…
- Do not pursue the past. Do not lose yourself in the future. The past no longer is. The future has not yet come. Looking deeply…
- Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think. Suffering follows an evil thought as the wheels of a cart follow the…
- Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think.
- If you truly loved yourself, you could never hurt another.
- Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts.
- May all that have life be delivered from suffering.
- All beings tremble before violence. All love life. All fear death. See yourself in others. Then whom can you hurt? What harm can you do?
- Much though he recites the sacred texts, but acts not accordingly, that heedless man is like a cowherd who only counts the cows of others…
- Though through all his life a fool associates with a wise man, he yet understands not the Dharma, as the spoon, the flavor of soup.
- Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of…
- One act of pure love in saving life is greater than spending the whole of one's time in religious offerings to the gods . .…
- (The real brahmin is the one who:) ... has crossed beyond duality ...knows no this shore, other shore, or both ...(is) settled in mind ...…
- Let a man avoid evil deeds as a man who loves life avoids poison.
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