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Gautama Buddha

Monk, Sage, Philosopher, Teacher, Religious Leader

All things appear and disappear because of the concurrence of causes and conditions. Nothing ever exists entirely alone; everything is in relation to everything else.
Buddhism - Conditioning - Positive
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Pema Chodron

Designer, Clergyman, Nun

Simply be present with your own shifting energies and with the unpredictabilit y of life as it unfolds.
Awakening - Buddhism - Energy - Inspiration - Life - Nuns - Spiritual
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Gautama Buddha

Monk, Sage, Philosopher, Teacher, Religious Leader

Ye must leave righteous ways behind, not to speak of unrighteous ways.
Buddhism - Righteousness - Speaking
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Gautama Buddha

Monk, Sage, Philosopher, Teacher, Religious Leader

Our sorrows and wounds are healed only when we touch them with compassion.
Buddhism - Compassion - Happiness - Healing - Inspiration - Sadness
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Dalai Lama, XIV

Leader of the Gelug School of Tibetan Buddhism, Exiled Leader of Tibet

Being concerned about other people is especially relevant in today's world. If we consider the complex inter-connected ness of our modern lives, how we depend on others and others depend on us, our outlook will change. We’ll begin to see 'others' not as somehow distant from us, but as people we are in touch with, people close to us; we will no longer feel indifferent to them.
Buddhism - Change - Dependence - Feelings - Indifference - Interconnectedness - Modern - Outlook - People - World
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Gautama Buddha

Monk, Sage, Philosopher, Teacher, Religious Leader

The wise say that it is not an iron, wooden or fiber fetter which is a strong one, but the besotted hankering after trinkets, children and wives, that, say the wise, is the strong fetter. It drags one down, and loose as it feels, it is hard to break. Breaking this fetter, people renounce the world, free from longing and abandoning sensuality.
Buddhism - Children - Feelings - People - Sensuality - Strength - Wisdom - World
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Gautama Buddha

Monk, Sage, Philosopher, Teacher, Religious Leader

All that we are is the result of what we have thought; what we think we become.
Attraction - Buddhism - Calm - Enlightenment - India - Karma - Thinking
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Gautama Buddha

Monk, Sage, Philosopher, Teacher, Religious Leader

Let a man avoid evil deeds as a man who loves life avoids poison.
Buddhism - Life - Man - Poison
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Gautama Buddha

Monk, Sage, Philosopher, Teacher, Religious Leader

Hunger (for things) is the supreme disease.
Buddhism - Disease
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Gautama Buddha

Monk, Sage, Philosopher, Teacher, Religious Leader

Overcome your uncertainties and free yourself from dwelling on sorrow. When you delight in existence, you will awaken, and become a guide to those in need, revealing the path to many.
Buddhism - Existence - Overcome - Path - Revelation - Uncertainty
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Dalai Lama, XIV

Leader of the Gelug School of Tibetan Buddhism, Exiled Leader of Tibet

When ever Buddhism has taken root in a new land, there has been a certain variation in the style in which it is observed. The Buddha himself taught differently according to the place, the occasion and the situation of those who were listening to him.
Buddhism - Certainty - Listening - Style - Taking - Teaching
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Gautama Buddha

Monk, Sage, Philosopher, Teacher, Religious Leader

A fool who recognises his own ignorance is thereby in fact a wise man, but a fool who considers himself wise - that is what one really calls a fool.
Buddhism - Facts - Fools - Ignorance - Man - Wisdom
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Gautama Buddha

Monk, Sage, Philosopher, Teacher, Religious Leader

Be lamps unto yourselves. Be refuges unto yourselves. Take yourself no external refuge. Hold fast to the truth as a lamp. Hold fast to the truth as a refuge. Look not for a refuge in anyone besides yourselves. And those, Ananda, who either now or after I am dead, Shall be a lamp unto themselves, Shall betake themselves as no external refuge, But holding fast to the truth as their lamp, Holding fast to the truth as their refuge, Shall not look for refuge to anyone else besides themselves, It is they who shall reach to the very topmost height; But they must be anxious to learn.
Anxiety - Buddhism
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Dalai Lama, XIV

Leader of the Gelug School of Tibetan Buddhism, Exiled Leader of Tibet

Death and dying provide a meeting-point between the Tibetan Buddhist and modern scientific traditions. I believe both have a great deal to contribute to each other on the level of understanding and of practical benefit.
Belief - Buddhism - Deal - Death - Modern - Traditions
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Gautama Buddha

Monk, Sage, Philosopher, Teacher, Religious Leader

Have compassion for all beings, rich and poor alike; each has their suffering. Some suffer too much, others too little.
Buddhism - Compassion - Rich - Suffering - Vaccines
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Rumi

Actress, Poet, Poet

Love is reckless; not reason. Reason seeks a profit. Loves comes on strong, consuming herself unabashed. Yet in the midst of suffering love proceeds like a millstone, hard surfaced and straight forward. Having died to self interest, she risks everything and asks for nothing. Love gambles away every gift God bestows. Without cause God gave us Being; without cause give it back again. Gambling yourself away is beyond any religion. Religion seeks grace and favor, but those who gamble these away are God's favorites, for they neither put God to the test nor knock at the door of gain and loss.
Buddhism - Consumer - Death - Favor - Gains - Gambling - Giving - Grace - Interest - Loss - Oneself - Profit - Reason - Reckless - Risk - Strength - Suffering
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Gautama Buddha

Monk, Sage, Philosopher, Teacher, Religious Leader

What I know is like the leaves on that tree; what I teach is only a small part. But I offer it to all with an open hand. What do I not teach? Whatever is fascinating to discuss, divides people against each other, but has no bearing on putting an end to sorrow. What do I teach? Only what is necessary to take you to the other shore.
Buddhism - End - People - Teaching
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Gautama Buddha

Monk, Sage, Philosopher, Teacher, Religious Leader

There is, Oh Monks, a not-born, a not-become, a not-made, a not-compounded. Monks, if that unborn, not-become, not-made, not-compounded were not, there would be no escape from this here that is born, become, made and compounded.
Buddhism - Making - Monk
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Gautama Buddha

Monk, Sage, Philosopher, Teacher, Religious Leader

'As I am, so are these. As are these, so am I.' Drawing the parallel to yourself, neither kill nor get others to kill.
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Gautama Buddha

Monk, Sage, Philosopher, Teacher, Religious Leader

The thought manifests as the word. The word manifests as the deed. The deed develops into habit. And the habit hardens into character. So watch the thought and its ways with care. And let it spring from love, born out of concern for all beings.
Anger - Attraction - Buddhism - Care - Character - Habit - Inspiration - Love - Manifestation - Watching
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