The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
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Siddhartha
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Ancient monk, living from donations.
If a man going down into a river, swollen and swiftly flowing, is carried away by the current — how can he help others across?
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Should a seeker not find a companion who is better or equal, let them resolutely pursue a solitary course.
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Health is the greatest gift, contentment is the greatest wealth.
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If with a pure mind a person speaks or acts, happiness follows them like a never-departing shadow.
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Whatever is not yours: let go of it. Your letting go of it will be for your long-term happiness & benefit.
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Understanding is the heartwood of well-spoken words.
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Better it is to live one day seeing the rise and fall of things than to live a hundred years without ever seeing the rise and fall of things.
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As a water bead on a lotus leaf, as water on a red lily, does not adhere, so the sage does not adhere to the seen, the heard, or the sensed.
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One is not called noble who harms living beings. By not harming living beings one is called noble.
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Just as a solid rock is not shaken by the storm, even so the wise are not affected by praise or blame.
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One is not called noble who harms living beings. By not harming living beings one is called noble.
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Whatever is not yours: let go of it. Your letting go of it will be for your long-term happiness & benefit.
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Better it is to live one day seeing the rise and fall of things than to live a hundred years without ever seeing the rise and fall of things.
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All tremble at violence; all fear death. Putting oneself in the place of another, one should not kill nor cause another to kill.
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The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.
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Don’t rush anything. When the time is right, it’ll happen.
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Drop by drop is the water pot filled. Likewise, the wise man, gathering it little by little, fills himself with good.
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Teach this triple truth to all: A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
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May all beings have happy minds.
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