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• If we divide into two camps--even into violent and the nonviolent--and stand in one camp while attacking the other, the world will…
• If the whole universe can be found in our own body and mind, this is where we need to make our inquires.…
• As long as we have practiced neither concentration nor mindfulness, the ego takes itself for granted and remains its usual normal size,…
• The Buddha compared anger with picking up hot coals with one's bare hands and trying to throw them at the person with…
• Trying to achieve something in the spiritual world is just as foolish as trying to achieve something in the material world. There's…
• A truly happy person is someone who is joyfully independent of outer conditions.
• Eventually we will find (mostly in retrospect, of course) that we can be very grateful to those people who have made life…
• If we want to be loved, we are looking for a support system. If we want to love, we are looking for…
• Mindfulness is a mental activity that in due course eliminates all suffering.
• The heart is always the place to go. Go home into your heart, where there is warmth, appreciation, gratitude and contentment
• It is often thought that the Buddha's doctrine teaches us that suffering will disappear if one has meditated long enough, or if…
• Whatever we attempt is a reflection of our inner thirst, which we hope to quench in all these external ways. What we…

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