Gautama Buddha Quotes
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Release old concepts and energies that keep you in self-punishment patterns. Release old stories and create from a place of love and self-validation. You are worth it!
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Sound health is the greatest of gifts; contentedness, the greatest of riches; trust, the greatest of qualities.
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What is this world condition? Body is the world condition. And with body and form goes feeling, perception, consciousness, and all the activities throughout the world. The arising of form and the ceasing of form-everything that has been heard, sensed, and known, sought after and reached by the mind-all this is the embodied world, to be penetrated and realized.
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The number of those endowed with human life is as small as the amount of earth one can place on a fingernail. Life as a human being is hard to sustain--as hard as it is for the dew to remain on the grass. But it is better to live a single day with honor than to live to 120 and die in disgrace.
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Be a lamp unto yourselves! Work out your liberation with diligence! Fill your mind with compassion!
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Every experience, no matter how bad it seems, holds within a blessing of some kind. The goal is to find it.
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We will be thankful and grateful. Not even the last thing that is done for us shall be forgotten.
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Of what I know, I have told you only a little. Why have I not told you the rest? Because it would not lead you to Nirvana.
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And he who has considered all the contrasts on this earth, and is no more disturbed by anything whatever in the world, the Peaceful One, freed from rage, from sorrow, and from longing, he has passed beyond birth and decay.
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Awake. Be the witness of your thoughts. The elephant hauls himself from the mud. In the same way drag yourself out of your sloth.
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Wisdom makes light the darkness of ignorance.
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Religion is a cow. It gives milk, but it also kicks.
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Do not give your attention to what others do or fail to do; give it to what you do or fail to do.
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Easy to do are things that are bad and harmful to oneself. But exceedingly difficult to do are things that are good and beneficial.
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Like fresh milk a bad deed does not turn at once. It follows a fool scorching him like a smouldering fire.
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If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.
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Though one should live a hundred years without wisdom and control, yet better, indeed, is a single day's life of one who is wise and meditative.
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Don't rely on logic alone, nor speculation. Don't infer or be deceived by appearances.
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By giving away food we get more strength. By bestowing clothing on others we gain more beauty. By donating abodes of purity and truth we acquire great treasures.
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By your own efforts waken yourself, watch yourself. And live joyfully.
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Love lasts when the relationship comes first.
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Without approval and without scorn, but carefully studying the sentences word by word, one should trace them in the Discourses and verify them by the Discipline. If they are neither traceable in the Discourses nor verifiable by the Discipline, one must conclude thus: 'Certainly, this is not the Blessed One's utterance; this has been misunderstood by that bhikkhu - or by that community, or by those elders, or by that elder.' In that way, bhikkhus, you should reject it.
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When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
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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 you stand or walk, Sit or lie down, As long as you are awake, Strive for this with a one-pointed mind; Your life will bring heaven to earth.