To insist on a spiritual practice that served you in the past is to carry the raft on your back after you have crossed the river.


Gautama Buddha

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I reached in experience the nirvana which is unborn, unrivalled, secure from attachment, undecaying ...
BUDDHA
Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.
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Be vigilant; guard your mind against negative thoughts.
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Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.
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You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
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All that we are is the result of what we have thought.
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Born out of concern for all beings.
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Decay is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence.
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On the contrary, Subhuti, those Bodhisattvas who, when these words of the sutra are being taught, wi...
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There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth...not going all the way, and not startin...
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You only lose what you cling to.
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Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.
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Friendship is a treasured gift, and every time I talk with you I feel as if I'm getting richer and r...
BUDDHA
I am the miracle.
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It is to see the faults of others, but difficult to see once own faults. One shows the faults of oth...
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To support mother and father, to cherish wife and child and to have a simple livelihood; this is the...
BUDDHA
My doctrine is not a doctrine but just a vision. I have not given you any set rules, I have not give...
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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.
BUDDHA
Love is what makes two people sit in the middle of a bench when there is plenty of room at both ends
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Through zeal, knowledge is gotten; through lack of zeal, knowledge is lost; let a man who knows the ...
BUDDHA
To become vegetarian is to step into the stream which leads to nirvana.
BUDDHA
The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in...
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Again a different meaning has to be understood.
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We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy...
BUDDHA
Don't pray for lighter burdens, but for stronger backs.
BUDDHA
A wise man, recognizing that the world is but an illusion, does not act as if it is real, so he esca...
BUDDHA
Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain pea...
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An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an ...
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Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.
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Happiness is not the absence of problems but the ability to deal with them.
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Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shorten...
BUDDHA
Everyone is gifted - but some people never open their package
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Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply becau...
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Beings are owners of their action, heirs of their action.
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He is able who thinks he is able.
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Hatred does not cease in this world by hating, but by not hating; this is an eternal truth.
BUDDHA
It is better to travel well than to arrive.
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Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.
BUDDHA
I was born into the world as the king of truth for the salvation of the world.
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Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.
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There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not sta...
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Better than worshiping gods is obedience to the laws of righteousness.
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Chaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence.
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Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace ...
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