There is no sweet companion like pure charity.

-Fo-Sho-Hing-Tsan-King

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Meditation is running into reality.
It does not insulate you from the pain of life.
It allows you to delve so deeply into life
and all its aspects that you pierce
the pain barrier and go beyond suffering.

-Bhante Henepola Gunaratana

"What you do may seem insignificant,
but it's important that you do it."

Conquer your foe by force, you increase his enmity; conquer by love, and you will reap no after-sorrow.

-Fo-Sho-Hing-Tsan-King

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Compassion is the willingness to play in the field of dreams even though you are awake.

-Matthew Flickstein

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Overcoming attachment does not mean becoming cold and indifferent. On the contrary, it means learning to have relaxed control over our mind through understanding the real causes of happiness and fulfillment, and this enables us to enjoy life more and suffer less.

-Kathleen McDonald

Hey you, expecting results without effort! So sensitive! So long-suffering! You, in the clutches of death, acting like an immortal! Hey sufferer, you are destroying yourself!

-Santideva,