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Your enemy can be your greatest teacher.

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Believe only what you yourself test and judge to be true.

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Life is easy For the man who is without shame, Impudent as a crow, A vicious gossip, Vain, meddlesome, dissolute. But life is hard For the man who quietly undertakes The way of perfection, With purity, detachment and vigor. He sees light.

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So in this case, Kalamas, don't go by reports, by legends, by traditions, by scripture, by logical conjecture, by inference, by analogies, by agreement through pondering views, by probability, or by the thought, 'This contemplative is our teacher.' When you know for yourselves that, 'These qualities are unskillful; these qualities are blameworthy; these qualities are criticized by the wise; these qualities, when adopted & carried out, lead to harm & to suffering' - then you should abandon them.

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Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts.

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Rage is a powerful energy that with diligent practice can be transformed into fierce compassion. However much we disagree with our enemies, our task is to identify with them. They too feel justified in their point of view.

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Fashion your life as a garland of beautiful deeds.

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Thousands upon thousands of lights is inferior to a light of heart.

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Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

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Do not vainly lament, but do wonder at the rule of transiency and learn from it the emptiness of human life. Do not cherish to unworthy desire that the changeable might become unchanging.

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If we fail to look after others when they need help, who will look after us?

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There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it. To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance.

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One is not low because of birth nor does birth make one holy. Deeds alone make one low, deeds alone make one holy.

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True charity occurs only when there are no notions of giving, giver, or gift.

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Be a lamp to yourself. Be your own confidence. Hold on to the truth within yourself as to the only truth.

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If you find no one to support you on the spiritual path, walk alone. There is no companionship with the immature.

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I knew that most people never see this reality because they attach to the material aspect of the world. Illusions of self and other fill their vision. I also realized there are those with little dust limiting their vision.

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Our good and bad deeds follow us almost like a shadow.

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The man who wears the yellow-dyed robe but is not free from stains himself, without self-restraint and integrity, is unworthy of the robe.

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Holding on to anger is like poisoning yourself and hoping someone else will die.

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