Gautama Buddha Quotes
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The more completely we give of ourselves, the more completely the world gives back to us.
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It is your mind that creates the world.
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Establish your mind as necessary for knowledge and remembrance. Establish a mind free of grasping to anything.
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Just as the dawn is the forerunner of the arising of the sun, so true friendship is the forerunner of the arising of the noble eightfold path.
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Right perspective is no perspective or all perspectives.
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Do not accept what you hear by report, do not accept tradition, do not accept a statement because it is found in our books, nor because it is in accord with your belief, nor because it is the saying of your teacher. Be lamps unto yourselves. Those who, either now or after I am dead, shall rely upon themselves only and not look for assistance to anyone besides themselves, it is they who shall reach the topmost height.
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I, ever knowing the living beings Who tread the Path and those who do not In response to those who may be saved Preach to them a variety of dharmas, Each time having this thought: 'How may I cause the beings To contrive to enter the Unexcelled Path and quickly to perfect the Buddha-body?'
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Teach you? I cannot teach you. Go; experience for yourself
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One who is unrestrained in life-delusion overcomes; as the wind a weak tree.
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A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.
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Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind.
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In four ways ... should one who flatters be understood as a foe in the guise of a friend: He approves of his friend's evil deeds, he disapproves his friend's good deeds, he praises him in his presence, he speaks ill of him in his absence.
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Just as the great ocean has one taste, the taste of salt, so also this teaching and discipline has one taste, the taste of liberation.
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Look upon him who shows you your faults as a revealer of treasure: seek his company who checks and chides you, the sage who is wise in reproof: it fares well and not ill with him who seeks such company.
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You, as much as anyone in the universe, deserve your love and respect.
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Joy and openness come from our own contented heart.
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Our own worst enemy cannot harm us as much as our unwise thoughts. No one can help us as much as our own compassionate thoughts.
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Do not breathing in the chronological, do not dream of the later, drain the intellect on the bring about twinkling.
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We will develop love, we will practice it, we will make it both a way and a basis.
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Better than a long speech is a single quietening word.
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It is easy to see the faults of others... it is hard to see our own.
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Do not judge yourself harshly. Without mercy for ourselves we cannot love the world.
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There are three ways to correct our faults:We can change through behavior We can change through understanding We can change heart.
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Hate never ends hate. Only love can.