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Solitude is happiness for one who is content, who has heard the Dhamma and clearly sees. Non-affliction is happiness in the world - harmlessness towards all living beings.

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I believe forgiveness is possible for everybody, for everything, but I'm a Buddhist.

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Know from the rivers in clefts and in crevices: those in small channels flow noisily, the great flow silent. Whatever's not full makes noise. Whatever is full is quiet.

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A kind man who makes good use of wealth is rightly said to possess a great treasure; but the miser who hoards up his riches will have no profit.

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As the bee collects nectar and departs without injuring the flower, or its color or fragrance, so let the sage dwell on earth.

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I have passed in ignorance through a cycle of many rebirths, seeking the builder of the house. Continuous rebirth is a painful thing. But now, housebuilder, I have found you out. You will not build me a house again. All your rafters are broken, your ridge-pole shattered. My mind is free from active thought, and has made an end of craving.

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We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act.

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This existence of ours is as transient as autumn clouds To watch the birth and death of beings is like looking at the movements of a dance. A lifetime is like a flash of lightning in the sky, Rushing by, like a torrent down a steep mountain.

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A fool acquires knowledge only to his own disadvantage. It destroys what good he has, and turns his brains.

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Conquer anger by love, evil by good; Conquer the miser with liberality, and the liar with truth.

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For one who is a learner and who has not yet come to master their mind, but who dwells aspiring for peace from that which binds, making it a matter concerning himself, I know of no other thing as helpful as giving close attention to the mind.

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If you don't see God in the next person you meet, look no further.

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As an elephant in the battlefield withstands arrows shot from bows all around, even so shall I endure abuse.

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When one is overcome by this wretched, clinging desire in the world, one's sorrows increase like grass growing up after a lot of rain.

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In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.

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Do not try to become anything. Do not make yourself into anything. Do not be a meditator. Do not become enlightened. When you sit, let it be. What you walk, let it be. Grasp at nothing. Resist nothing.

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A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.

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To develop genuine devotion, you must know the meaning of teachings. The main emphasis in Buddhism is to transform the mind, and this transformation depends upon meditation. in order to meditate correctly, you must have knowledge.

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Sandalwood, tagara, lotus, jasmine - the fragrance of virtue is unrivalled by such kinds of perfume.

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You yourself must strive. The Buddhas only point the way.

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