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Buddhism wasn’t about holding on to beliefs. If anything, it asked for the opposite; it emphasized letting go of grasping onto beliefs, opinions, and ideas about who I and the world were. - Santiago Santai Jiménez
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Revenge follows hatred and forgiveness follows love. - Meher Baba
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Speak only the speech that neither torments self nor does harm to others. That speech is truly well spoken.
Speak only endearing speech, speech that is welcomed. Speech when it brings no evil to others is pleasant.
Ven. Vangisa
Speak only endearing speech, speech that is welcomed. Speech when it brings no evil to others is pleasant.
Ven. Vangisa
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If you think in an unskillful way, then suffering follows you. But if you think in a skillful way, happiness follows you. - Buddha
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The level of consumption in modern society is even higher than that which is supposedly provided by the ideal world—the heaven that people dreamed of in the past. - Pomnyun Sunim
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Yesterday’s suffering can turn into today’s joy and today’s joy can turn into tomorrow’s suffering. - Pomnyun Sunim
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Mystics of many religious traditions have described the not-at-all blissful "dark night of the soul" experience and recognized it was a necessary phase of their particular spiritual journey, not something to be avoided. - Barbara O’Brien
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Instead of thinking of nirvana too much in the abstract, it can be more useful to define it as living in a state without suffering. In other words, a life that’s filled with happiness and free from suffering. - Pomnyun Sunim
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A dark night of the soul always arrives uninvited, yet it could be the best thing to ever happen. - Jessica Davidson
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You might spend your whole life in pursuit of only food and clothing, with great effort and without regard for suffering or harmful deeds, but when you die you can’t take even a single thing with you— Consider this well. - Chatral Rinpoche