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There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.

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Patience is key. Remember: A jug fills drop by drop.

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Pain in certain, suffering is optional.

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Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

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There is no path to happiness, happiness is the path.

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It is better to travel well than to arrive.

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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.

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Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.

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There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind.

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To understand everything is to forgive everything.

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As the Fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts.

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A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.

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When you realize how perfect everything is, you will tilt your head back, and laugh at the sky.

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The way is not in the sky; the way is in the heart.

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Better than a thousand hallow words, is one word that brings peace.

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When you dig a well, there’s no sign of water until you reach it, only rocks and dirt to move out of the way. When you have removed enough; soon the pure water will flow.

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Long is the night to him who is awake; long is the mile to him who is tired; long is the life of the foolish who do not know the true law.

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An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast, a wild beast may wound your body, but an insincere friend will wound your mind.

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In the sky there is no distinction of East and West; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.

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However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act upon them?

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Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it.

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Doubt everything. Find your own light.

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To conquer oneself is a greater task than conquering others.

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Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have.

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Have compassion for all beings, rich and poor alike; each has their suffering. Some suffer too much, others too little.

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Hatreds do not ever cease in this world by hating, but by not hating, this is an eternal truth.

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Meditative, persevering, always striving, diligently, the wise attain nirvana, supreme peace.

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Do not indulge in negligence, do not be intimate with attachment to desire. The vigilant one, meditative gains great happiness.

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For the wakeful one whose mind is unimpassioned, whose thoughts are undisturbed, who has given up both virtue and sin, there is no fear.

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Do not look at the faults of others, or what others have done, or not done; observe what you yourself have done, and have not done.

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A fool who is conscious of his folly is thereby wise; the fool who thinks himself wise is the one to be called a fool.

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That deed is well done that is not followed by regret, whose consequences are attained by joy, and happiness.

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The effect of an evil deed, like milk, does not congeal all at once, it follows the foolish one, burning like fire covered with ashes.

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As a solid boulder does not shake in the wind, the wise are not moved by censure, or praise.

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The wise should abandon evil things and do what is good leaving attachments and entering into a life without attachment, the individualism that is hard to enjoy.

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The thought is calm, the speech and actions are calm, in one who is liberated and gone to serenity by perfect knowledge.

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Do not under estimate evil thinking that it will not affect you. Dripping water can even fill a pitcher drop by drop; a fool is filled with evil, even if one accumulates it little by little.

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There is nowhere in the world, not in the sky, nor in the sea, nor in the depths of the earth, that one can escape evil deeds.

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If you can make yourself as still as a broken gong, you have attained Nirvana, there is no agitation in you.

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Motivate yourself by yourself; examine yourself by yourself. Thus self controlled and fully conscious , you will live happily.

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Be free of the past; be free of the future, be free of the meantime; be transcendent. When your mind is completely liberated, you will no longer undergo birth, and old age.

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It is better to walk alone; there is no companionship with a fool. Walk alone, like an elephant in the forest, with few desires doing no evil.

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Take pleasure in vigilance, guard your own mind; extricate yourself from the way to misery; as you would an elephant stuck in the mud.

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When one sees by insight that all conditioned states are transitory, one then wearies of misery; this is the path to purity.

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There is no fire like passion, no captor like hatred, no snare like delusion, no torrent like craving.