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A brahmin once asked The Blessed One: "Are you a God?" "No, brahmin" said The Blessed One. "Are you a saint?" "No, brahmin" said The Blessed One. "Are you a magician?" "No, brahmin" said The Blessed One. "What are you then?" "I am awake.

Abstain from all sinful, unwholesome actions, perform only pious wholesome ones, purify the mind; this is the teaching of enlightened ones

A contemplative should pay equal attention to concentration, energetic effort and equanimity, and not exclusively to one of these factors only.

A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another. If these minds love one another the home will be as beautiful as a flower garden. But if these minds get out of harmony with one another it is like a storm that plays havoc with the garden.

A fool acquires knowledge only to his own disadvantage. It destroys what good he has, and turns his brains.

A fool thinks it like honey so long as the bad deed does not bear fruit, but when it does bear fruit he experiences suffering.

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.

After 48 years, I have said nothing.

After enlightenment, the laundry.

After much seeking for truth and knowledge the profoundness of reality came to me with a clarity never before known.

A good horse runs with seeing just the shadow of the whip.

A generous heart, kind speech, & a life of service & compassion are the things which renew humanity.

A good friend who points out mistakes is to be respected, as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

A great gift - a gift of Dharma conquers all gifts.

A jug fills drop by drop.

A kind man who makes good use of wealth is rightly said to possess a great treasure; but the miser who hoards up his riches will have no profit.

All acts of living become bad by ten things, and by avoiding the ten things they become good. There are three evils of the body, four evils of the tongue, and three evils of the mind.

All beings are not only the parents in the past. They will become the Buddha in the future. If you free their lives, you are Buddha.

All beings tremble before violence. All love life. All fear death. See yourself in others. Then whom can you hurt? What harm can you do?

All composite things decay. Strive diligently.

All composite things pass away. Strive for your own liberation with diligence.

All compounded things are subject to decay. Strive with diligence!

All descriptions of reality are temporary hypotheses.

All fear violence, all are afraid of death.

All have I overcome, all do I know. From all am I detached. All have I renounced. Wholly absorbed am I in ``the destruction of craving. Having comprehended all by myself, whom shall I call my teacher.

All human unhappiness comes from not facing reality squarely, exactly as it is.

"All is passing". When one realises this, he sits loose to this world of sorrow : This is the way of purity.

All life is temporary Why worry about anything that's only temporary

All living beings have Buddha nature and can become Buddhas.

All of you knowing now, Tthat the Buddhas, the Teachers of the Ages, In accord with what is peculiarly appropriate, have recourse to expedient devices, Need have no more doubts or uncertainties. Your hearts shall give rise to great joy, Since you know that you yourselves Shall become Buddhas.

All phenomena link together in a mutually conditioning network.

All rising to great places is by a winding stair.

All that has been hidden is rising, there is no stopping it! These things you cannot hide: the sun, the moon, and TRUTH.

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If people speak or act with evil thoughts, pain follows them. If people speak or act with pure thoughts, happiness follows them, like a shadow that never leaves them.

All that we are is the result of what we have thought; it is founded on our thoughts; it is made up of our thoughts. A man's life is the direct result of his thoughts... We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world.

All that we are is the result of what we have thought; what we think we become.

All the holy words you read and all the holy words you speak are as nothing if you do not act upon them.  Even if you read little and say little but live the right way, forsaking craving, hatred and delusion, you will know the truth and find calmness and will show others the path.

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.

All tremble at violence; all fear death. Putting oneself in the place of another, one should not kill nor cause another to kill.

All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?

Always be mindful of the kindness and not the faults of others

A man may conquer a million men in battle but one who conquers himself is, indeed, the greatest of conquerors.

A man should first direct himself in the way he should go. Only then should he instruct others.

A man traveling across a field encountered a tiger. He fled, the tiger after him. Coming to a precipice, he caught hold of the root of a wild vine and swung himself down over the edge. The tiger sniffed at him from above. Trembling, the man looked down to where, far below, another tiger was waiting to eat him. Only the vine sustained him. Two mice, one white and one black, little by little started to gnaw away the vine. The man saw a luscious strawberry near him. Grasping the vine with one hand, he plucked the strawberry with the other. How sweet it tasted!

A man who will be the public leader, must know how to be the public follower.

Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.

A mind unruffled by the vagaries of fortune, from sorrow freed, from defilements cleansed, from fear liberated - this is the greatest blessing.

Analyzing through special insight and realizing the lack of inherent existence constitute understanding of the signless.

And for a disciple thus freed, in whose heart dwells peace, there is nothing to be added to what has been done, and naught more remains for him to do. Just as a rock of one solid mass remains unshaken by the wind, even so, neither forms, nor sounds, nor odors, nor tastes, nor contacts of any kind, neither the desired, nor the undesired, can cause such an one to waver. Steadfast is his mind, gained is deliverance.

And he who has considered all the contrasts on this earth, and is no more disturbed by anything whatever in the world, the Peaceful One, freed from rage, from sorrow, and from longing, he has passed beyond birth and decay.