Gautama Buddha Quotes, Spiritual Quotes, Good Friend Quotes

This is the entire spiritual life, Ananda, that is, good friendship, good companionship, good comradeship. When a monk has a good friend, a good companion, a good comrade, it is to be expected that he will develop and cultivate the Noble Eightfold Path.

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At the bottom of things, most people want to be understood and appreciated.

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The secret of happiness lies in the mind's release from worldly ties.

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Your actions are your only true belongings.

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Do not learn how to react. Learn how to respond.

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Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love.

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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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Sit Rest Work. Alone with yourself, Never weary. On the edge of the forest Live joyfully, Without desire.

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There is pleasure And there is bliss. Forgo the first to possess the second. If you are happy At the expense of another man's happiness, You are forever bound.

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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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The recollected go forth to lives of renunciation. They take no pleasure in a fixed abode. Like wild swans abandoning a pool, they leave one resting place after another.

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Should a person do good, let him do it again and again. Let him find pleasure therein, for blissful is the accumulation of good.

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Men give up one thing to take up another, but in spite of numerous changes they do not find peace. They are no better than monkeys who let go one bough to take hold of another, only to let it go again.

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Dharma is not upheld by talking about it. Dharma is upheld by living in harmony with it.

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The end of desire is the end of sorrow.

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Whoever sees me sees the teaching, and whoever sees the teaching sees me.

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The world is afflicted by death and decay. But the wise do not grieve, having realized the nature of the world.

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Focusnot on the rudeness of others,not on what they've done or left undone,but on what you have done and have not doneyourself.

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The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.

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There is, Oh Monks, a not-born, a not-become, a not-made, a not-compounded. Monks, if that unborn, not-become, not-made, not-compounded were not, there would be no escape from this here that is born, become, made and compounded.

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