Gautama Buddha Quotes About Life
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As you walk and eat and travel, be where you are. Otherwise you will miss most of your life.
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If dresses would have qualified people, then whores would have ruled the world.
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Let a man avoid evil deeds as a man who loves life avoids poison.
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Happiness or sorrow- whatever befalls you, walk on untouched, unattached.
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Concentrate the mind on the present moment.
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Meditate. Live purely. Be quiet. Do your work with mastery. Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine.
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Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts.
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Your body is precious. It is our vehicle for awakening. Treat it with care.
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The poisonous serpent of afflictions is sleeping in your mind; just as if a black viper were asleep in your room. You must use the hook of precepts to quickly remove it. When the sleeping snake is gone, then you can rest at ease.
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In the end these things matter most: How well did you love? How fully did you live? How deeply did you let go?
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Live every act fully, as if it were your last.
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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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One act of pure love in saving life is greater than spending the whole of one's time in religious offerings to the gods . . .
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This is my child, this is my wealth: such thoughts are the preoccupations of fools. If we are unable to own even ourselves, why make such claims?
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Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think. Suffering follows an evil thought as the wheels of a cart follow the oxen that draws it. Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think. Joy follows a pure thought like a shadow that never leaves.
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There is only one time when it is essential to awaken. That time is now.
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Stay centered, do not overstretch. Extend from your center, return to your center.
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This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.
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That which goeth up must needs come down; and that which is down must needs go up. But Brahma has ordained that the that that goeth up is seldom the same as the that that hath gone down.
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Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.
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Be vigilant; guard your mind against negative thoughts
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A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again; but if he is peaceful, loving and fearless then he is in truth called wise.
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All life is temporary Why worry about anything that's only temporary
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Though through all his life a fool associates with a wise man, he yet understands not the Dharma, as the spoon, the flavor of soup.
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Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
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He who harms living beings is, for that reason, not an ariya (a Noble One); he who does not harm any living being is called an ariya.
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A victor only breeds hatred, while a defeated man lives in misery, but a man at peace within lives happily, abandoning up ideas of victory and defeat.
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Fashion your life as a garland of beautiful deeds.
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Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed.
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