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Religion Founder Inspirational Quotes (777)

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I will purify my bodily actions through repeated reflection. I will purify my verbal actions through repeated reflection. I will purify my mental actions through repeated reflection. That's how you should train yourself.
Gautama Buddha
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But ...meat eating in any form, in any manner, and in any place is unconditionally and once and for all prohibited ...Meat eating I have not permitted to anyone, I do not permit, I will not permit.
Gautama Buddha
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A lot of people do their practice. They meditate on compassion. Then they yell at people afterwards. That is not quite working. One of the things I try to emphasize is contemplative meditation - bringing your thought and intention into meditation.
Sakyong Mipham
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By defilement of mind, beings are defiled by purification of mind, beings are purified.
Gautama Buddha
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Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair.
Gautama Buddha
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The mind that perceives the limitation is the limitation.
Gautama Buddha
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The seeker is that which is being sought.
Gautama Buddha
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To live a single day and hear a good teaching is better than to live a hundred years without knowing such teaching.
Gautama Buddha
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It is wrong to think that misfortunes come from the east or from the west they originate within one's own mind.
Gautama Buddha
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Mind is everything. What we think, we become.
Gautama Buddha
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Keeping away for all evil deeds, cultivation of life by doing good deeds and purification of mind from mental impunities.
Gautama Buddha
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Live happily, not hating even those who are hostile. Live peacefully even amongst those that hate.
Gautama Buddha
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Be lamps unto yourselves be your own confidence. Hold truth within yourselves.
Gautama Buddha
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How does one practice mindfulness? Sit in meditation. Be aware of only your breath.
Gautama Buddha
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Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts. Develop the mind of equilibrium. You will always be getting praise and blame, but do not let either affect the poise of the mind: follow the calmness, the absence of pride.
Gautama Buddha
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Seeing the similarity to oneself, one should not use violence or have it used.
Gautama Buddha
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It is more important to prevent animal suffering, rather than sit to contemplate the evils of the universe praying in the company of priests.
Gautama Buddha
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To stop suffering, stop greediness. Greediness is a source of suffering.
Gautama Buddha
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A person creates what they defend against.
Gautama Buddha
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The recollected go forth to lives of renunciation. They take no pleasure in a fixed abode. Like wild swans abandoning a pool, they leave one resting place after another.
Gautama Buddha
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It is because I perceive the danger in the practice of mystic wonders, that I loath, abhor, and am ashamed thereof.
Gautama Buddha
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Turn yourself not away from three best things: Good Thought, Good Word, and Good Deed.
Zoroaster
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Truth is best (of all that is) good. As desired, what is being desired is truth for him who (represents) the best truth. (Gathas 27.14)
Zoroaster
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Seek your happiness in the happiness of all.
Zoroaster
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