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Religion Founder Inspirational Quotes (777)

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To insist on a spiritual practice that served you in the past is to carry the raft on your back after you have crossed the river.
Gautama Buddha
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A disciplined mind brings happiness.
Gautama Buddha
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The mind is the source of happiness and unhappiness by what it chooses to compare the experience with. If it chooses to compare it to something worse then it will create happiness, gratitude and pride but if it chooses to compare it to something better then it will create unhappiness, bitterness and envy.
Gautama Buddha
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Each day of my life I am sowing seeds that one day I will harvest.
Gautama Buddha
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One should not kill a living being, nor cause it to be killed, nor should one incite another to kill. Do not injure any being, either strong or weak, in the world.
Gautama Buddha
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If you want to be miserable, think of yourself. If you want to be happy, think of others.
Sakyong Mipham
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Running and meditation are very personal activities. Therefore they are lonely. This loneliness is one of their best qualities because it strengthens our incentive to motivate ourselves.
Sakyong Mipham
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You throw thorns, falling in my silence they become flowers.
Gautama Buddha
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Ultimately, as individuals we each have to ask ourselves to be courageous and apply certain principles.
Sakyong Mipham
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Whatever an enemy might do to an enemy, or a foe to a foe, the ill-directed mind can do to you even worse.
Gautama Buddha
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Whoever has done harmful actions but later covers them up with good is like the moon which, freed from clouds, lights up the world.
Gautama Buddha
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The fool who recognizes his foolishness, is a wise man. But the fool who believes himself a wise man, he really is a fool.
Gautama Buddha
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Holding on to anger is like poisoning yourself and hoping someone else will die.
Gautama Buddha
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Each of us holds human destiny in our hands. It will be completely determined by how the mind feels about itself.
Sakyong Mipham
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Live every act fully, as if it were your last.
Gautama Buddha
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Just as a picture is drawn by an artist, surroundings are created by the activities of the mind
Gautama Buddha
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All beings are not only the parents in the past. They will become the Buddha in the future. If you free their lives, you are Buddha.
Gautama Buddha
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The man who foolishly does me wrong, I will return to him the protection of my most ungrudging love and the more evil comes from him, the more good shall go from me.
Gautama Buddha
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You are the community now. Be a lamp for yourselves. Be your own refuge. Seek for no other. All things must pass. Strive on diligently. Don’t give up.
Gautama Buddha
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Karma grows from our hearts. Karma terminates from our hearts.
Gautama Buddha
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Be your own lamps. Be your own shelters. Hang on to the truth as a lamp. Hang on to the truth as a refuge.
Gautama Buddha
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Suffer no anxiety, for he who is a sufferer of anxiety becomes regardless of enjoyment of the world and the spirit, and contraction happens to his body and soul.
Zoroaster
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There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it. To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance.
Gautama Buddha
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The principles of Buddhism and Shambhala can be effective in helping the course of what is happening in the world.
Sakyong Mipham
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