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“Mind is a forerunner of all actions.All deeds are led by mind, created by mind.If one speaks or acts with corrupt mind, suffering follows,As the wheel follows the hoof of an ox pulling a cart.Mind ...”
“Yellow leaves hang on your tree of life. The messengers of death are waiting. You are going to travel far away. Have you any provisions for the journey?”
“Animosity does not eradicate animosity. Only by loving kindness is animosity dissolved. This law is ancient and eternal. (attributed to Buddha)”
“If he makes himself as good as he tells others to be, then he in truth can teach others. Difficult indeed is self-control.”
“All beings tremble before danger, all fear death. When a man considers this, he does not kill or cause to kill.”
“Greater than all the joysOf heaven and earth,Greater still than dominionOver all the worlds,Is the joy of reaching the stream.”
“You are as the yellow leaf.The messengers of death are at hand.You are to travel far away.What will you take with you?You are the lampTo lighten the way.Then hurry, hurry.When your light shinesWith...”
“I shall live here in the rains,There in winter,Elsewhere in summer," muses the fool,Not aware of the nearness of death.”
“Whatever is impermanent is dukkha (Yad anicca ta dukkha).”
“Two ideas are psychologically deep-rooted in man: self-protection and self-preservation. For self-protection man has created God, on whom he depends for his own protection, safety and security, jus...”
“-A man do everything for love, in love but he cant get love according to his desire, there is also involve the desire of someone else-”
“The critics only made me work harder.”
“The man who has no imagination,has no wing”
“We were encouraged to propose safetyprevention suggestions, and write them all down locking doors, walking or exercising with a friend, wearing shoes that dont hinder running. Erins suggestion of A...”
“People.. were poor not because they were stupid or lazy. They worked all day long, doing complex physical tasks. They were poor because the financial institution in the country did not help them wi...”
“If you go out into the real world, you cannot miss seeing that the poor are poor not because they are untrained or illiterate but because they cannot retain the returns of their labor. They have no...”
“When we want to help the poor, we usually offer them charity. Most often we use charity to avoid recognizing the problem and finding the solution for it. Charity becomes a way to shrug off our resp...”
“The fact that the poor are alive is clear proof of their ability.”
“Even today we don't pay serious attention to the issue of poverty, because the powerful remain relatively untouched by it. Most people distance themselves from the issue by saying that if the poor ...”
“Poverty does not belong in civilized human society. Its proper place is in a museum. That's where it will be.”
