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However many holy words you read, However many you speak, What good will they do you If you do not act on upon them?

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Careful amidst the careless, amongst the sleeping wide-awake, the intelligent man leaves them all behind, like a race-horse does a mere hack.

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If a man offend a harmless, pure, and innocent person, the evil falls back upon that fool, like light dust thrown up against the wind.

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In the end it is nothing other than the loving kindness with which the woman cares for her child that makes the difference. Her concern concentrates on one thing just like the Buddhist practice of concentration. She thinks of nothing but her child, which is similar to Buddhist compassion. That must be why, although she created no other causes to bring about it, she was reborn in the Brahma heaven.

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A disciplined mind brings happiness.

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Dispassion is the best of mental states. . . .

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A man should first direct himself in the way he should go. Only then should he instruct others.

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Do not interrogate silence because silence is mute; do not expect anything from the gods, nor should you try to bribe them with gifts, because it is in ourselves that we must look for liberation.

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Sustaining a loving heart, even for a moment, makes one a spiritual being.

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Understand that the body is merely the foam of a wave, the shadow of a shadow.

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Whoever counters the malicious with malice can never be free, but one who feels no maliciousness pacifies those who hate. Hate brings misery to humanity so the wise man knows no hatred.

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One who conquers himself is greater than another who conquers a thousand times a thousand on the battlefield.

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The wind cannot shake a mountain. Neither praise nor blame moves the wise man.

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Don't keep searching for the truth, just let go of your opinions.

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He who never thinks of anything as 'mine' does not feel the lack of anything: he is never worried by a sense of loss.

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If a man going down into a river, swollen and swiftly flowing, is carried away by the current - how can he help others across?

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‎You only lose that which you cling to.

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Besides the respect of the lives of human beings, all the animals and plants should be on the list too. That is the real humanitarianism.

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Generosity brings happiness at every stage of its expression. We experience joy in forming the intention to be generous. We experience joy in the actual act of giving something. And we experience joy in remembering the fact that we have given.

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Whatever grounds there are for making merit productive of a future birth, all these do not equal a sixteenth part of the liberation of mind by loving-kindness. The liberation of mind by loving-kindness surpasses them and shines forth, bright and brilliant.

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