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When we encounter suffering, it is important to respond w/ compassion rather than to question the politics of those we help.
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Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day.
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Good human qualities-honesty, sincerity, a good heart-cannot be bought with money, nor can they be produced my machines, but only by the mind itself. We can call this the inner light, or God's blessing, or human qualitity. This is the essence of mankind.
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Laughing in full abandonment is very good for your health.
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If one assumes a humble attitude, one's own good qualities will increase. Whereas if one is proud, one will become jealous of others, one will look down on others, and due to that there will be unhappiness in society.
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Our enemies provide us with a precious opportunity to practice patience and love. We should have gratitude toward them.
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See the positive side, the potential, and make an effort.
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If you wish to experience peace, provide peace for another.
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In order to develop the willpower it takes to sacrifice, you must first realize that spending all your time and energy pursuing material comforts means you will eventually suffer. It's all about positive and negative consequences. It's very important to be aware that there are long-term consequences [for every action].
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There is nothing that does not get easier through cultivation. The buddhas of the past started out as ordinary beings. They were not buddhas in the beginning. The path to buddhahood is traversed only through gradually developing more and more courage and DETERMINATION -then it is attained.
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The practice of love can be expressed in one sentence: 'Do not harm others.'
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I have found that the greatest degree of inner peace comes from cultivating love and compassion.
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Real change in society must start from individual initiative.
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Sectarian feelings and criticism of other teachings or other sects is very bad, poisonous, and should be avoided.
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You can’t help someone just by making a wish to do so, you have to take action.
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Basically we are all the same human beings with the same potential to be a good human being or a bad human being. The important thing is to realize the positive side and try to increase that realize the negative side and try to reduce. That's the way.
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I believe deeply that we must find, all of us together, a new spirituality.
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True friendship develops not as a result of money or power but on the basis of genuine human affection.
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Modern education is premised strongly on materialistic values. It is vital that when educating our children's brains that we do not neglect to educate their hearts, a key element of which has to be the nurturing of our compassionate nature.
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It is important not to allow ourselves to be put off by the magnitude of others' suffering. The misery of millions is not a cause for pity. Rather it is a cause for compassion.
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