It is your freedom and right to seek to be happy. However, the act that you engage in to become happy must not harm others. - Pomnyun Sunim
The Buddhist approach to ahimsa, or non-harming, in the realm of small animals and microorganisms, was to exercise all reasonable measures to avoid needless or avoidable killing—recognizing that these creatures too want to eat and avoid harm. - Allan Badiner
The result of generosity is always richness. The result of miserliness is always poverty. This principle is constant. - Sakya Pandita
Pure acts of giving are expected to gladden the heart and contribute to the development of personal character. - Bhikkhu Cintita
The Buddha recommends that offerings never be given in a callous manner, but rather respectfully, not in a way that humiliates the recipient and ideally with one’s own hands rather than through an intermediary. These recommendations encourage direct engagement in the act of giving. In this way, these measures encourage feelings of friendship, appreciation and interpersonal harmony in association with the act of generosity. - Bhikkhu Cintita
A tranquil state of mind reduces the workload of the nervous system and keeps it from being over-stressed. - Ajahn Viriyang
The systematic practice of generosity sets the direction our life will take in the most fundamental way, pointing it toward selflessness rather that toward self-advantage, which, perhaps surprisingly, turns out to be the direction that brings the greatest personal satisfaction and that leads eventually to awakening. - Bhikkhu Cintita
It’s time for us to realize that our only hope is to let go of the old consciousness and enter a new one that sees everything in a new light. - Anam Thubten
Our survival depends on a significant portion of the human race accomplishing a change in worldview, from one of patriotic and tribal loyalties to loyalty to life itself. - Paula Green
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