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Happiness is not an individual matter. When you are able to bring relief, or bring back the smile to one person, not only that person profits, but you also profit.

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As we cultivate peace and happiness in ourselves, we also nourish peace and happiness in those we love.
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Real peace is not in power, money, or weapons, but in deep inner peace.
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How do you want to create peace, if there is no peace inside yourselves?
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Choose to be in touch with what is wonderful, refreshing, and healing within yourself and around you.
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I realize that many elements of the Buddhist teaching can be found in Christianity, Judaism, Islam. I think if Buddhism can help, it is the concrete methods of practice.
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Until there is peace between religions, there can be no peace in the world.
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We are often sad and suffer a lot when things change, but change and impermanence have a positive side. Thanks to impermanence, everything is possible. Life itself is possible... If your daughter is not impermanent, she cannot grow up to become a woman. Then your grandchildren would never manifest.
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When our beliefs are based on our own direct experience of reality and not on notions offered by others, no one can remove these beliefs from us.
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