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Think not lightly of good, saying, "It will not come to me." Drop by drop is the water pot filled. Likewise, the wise man, gathering it little by little, fills himself with good.
- Papavagga: Evil
Never reach out your hand unless you're willing to extend an arm.
- Pope Paul VI
When you begin to see that your enemy is suffering, that is the beginning of insight
- Thich Nhat Hanh, Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life
My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.
- Mark Twain
We will develop and cultivate the liberation of mind by lovingkindness, make it our vehicle, make it our basis, stabilize it, exercise ourselves in it, and fully perfect it.
- Samyutta Nikaya
Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues.
- George Will
An emotion is like a cloud passing through the sky. Sometimes it is fear or anger, sometimes it is happiness or love, sometimes it is compassion. But none of them ultimately constitute a self. They are just what they are, each manifesting its own quality. With this understanding, we can cultivate the emotions that seem helpful and simply let the others be, without aversion, without suppression, without identification.
- Joseph Goldstein, Insight Meditation: The Practice of Freedom
Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.
- William Penn
The result of practicing meditation is realization and experience. Meditation experiences are temporary and come rather quickly. Realization, however, is attained through the gradual process of meditation and is lasting. One has to work on attaining realization, and one should have no attachment to the experience of meditation whether good or bad.
- Thrangu Rinpoche, The Practice of Tranquillity & Insight: A Guide to Tibetan Buddhist Meditation
Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues.
- George Will
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He who is friendly amidst the hostile, peaceful amidst the violent, and unattached amidst the attached — him do I call a holy man.
- Brahmanavagga: The Holy Man
From caring comes courage.
- Lao Tzu
Don’t hope for a life without problems. An easy life results in a judgmental and lazy mind. So an ancient once said, “Accept the anxieties and difficulties of this life.
- Kyong Ho, Thousand Peaks: Korean Zen - Tradition and Teachers