There's a mess inside you: You clean the outside.
Anonymous, The Dhammapada.
“Now may every living thing, young or old,weak or strong, living near or far, known orunknown, living or departed or yet unborn,may every living thing be full of bliss.”
“From the dear comes grief; From the dear comes fear.If you're freed from the dear You'll have no grief, let alone fear.”
“The fool who knows his folly Becomes wise by that fact.But the fool who thinks he's wise - He's called 'a fool' indeed!”
“Better than a thousand sayings Made up of useless wordsIs one word of meaning Which calms you to hear it.”
“One who utters speech that isn't rough But instructive and truthfulSo that he offends no one, Him I call Brahmin.”
“Though you might conquer in battle A thousand times a thousand men,You're the greatest battle-winner If you conquer just one - yourself.”
“Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.”
“I don't know whether I believe in God or not. I think, really, I'm some kind of a Buddhist. But the essential thing is to put oneself in a frame of mind which is close to that of prayer.”
“Each man had only one genuine vocation - to find the way to himself....His task was to discover his own destiny - not an arbitrary one - and to live it out wholly and resolutely within himself. Eve...”
“Hypocrisy is wretched because the hypocrite says with his tongue what is not in his heart. He wrongs his tongue and oppresses his heart. But if the heart is sound, the condition of the tongue follo...”
“Fly free spirits fly, for if you reach heaven before me, then at least I know to this world I have more love to apply. " ~ Roy Hale”