Gautama Buddha Quotes
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Please, try to eat a bit less meat, a bit more veggies from today. Let it become a habit gradually until not to eat meat anymore. Then, observe the changing of the body and spirit after eating veggies, fruits and grains.
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In the light of his vision that is the perspective that allows him to be grateful that things are not worse he has found his freedom and joy: his thoughts are peace, his words are peace and his work is peace.
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He who is grateful doesn't suffer.
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The way to happiness is: keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, give much. Fill your life with love. Do as you would be done by.
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If beings knew, as I know, the results of giving & sharing, they would not eat without having given.
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An pretend and evil friend is haughty to be feared than a unmanageable beast; a unmanageable beast may mouthful your build up, but an evil friend fortitude mouthful your intellect.
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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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I am always at the beginning.
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Those who act with few desires are calm, without worry or fear.
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One is not called noble who harms living beings. By not harming living beings one is called noble.
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Pay no attention to the faults of others, things done or left undone by others. Consider only what by oneself is done or left undone.
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Resolutely train yourself to attain peace.
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If anything is worth doing, do it with all your heart.
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Wisdom makes light the darkness of ignorance.
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How deeply did you learn to let go?
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Just as you have come to know, the false discrimination of yourself, apply this mentally to all phenomena.
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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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Hatreds never cease by hatreds in this world. By love alone they cease. This is an ancient Law.
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Love in the past is only a memory. Love in the future is only a fantasy. True love lives in the here and now.
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Do not think lightly of good, that nothing will come of it. A whole water pot will fill up from dripping drops of water.
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Do not overlook tiny good actions, thinking they are of no benefit; even tiny drops of water in the end will fill a huge vessel. Do not overlook negative actions merely because they are small; however small a spark may be, it can burn down a haystack as big as a mountain.
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Noble friends and companions are the whole of the holy life.
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To share happiness, and to have done something good before leaving this life is sweet.
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All created things are impermanent. Strive diligently.