You see pictures of Buddha and he’s sitting, reclining, at peace. The Hindus have their twelve-armed elephant god, who also seems so content but not powerless. But leave it to Christians to have a dead and bloody man nailed to a cross.
True love is born from understanding.
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Gautama Buddha
Smiles, rainbows and a grain of rice. I could survive on that!
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Anthony T. Hincks
Truth is the same always. Whoever ponders it will get the same answer. Buddha got it. Patanjali got it. Jesus got it. Mohammed got it. The answer is the same, but the method of working it out may vary this way or that. (115)
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Swami Satchidananda
The Four Noble Truths are pragmatic rather than dogmatic. They suggest a course of action to be followed rather than a set of dogmas to be believed. The four truths are prescriptions for behavior rather than descriptions of reality. The Buddha compares himself to a...
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Stephen Batchelor
A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again; but if he is peaceful, loving and fearless then he is in truth called wise.
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Gautama Buddha
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If you don't want anyone to know about your existence, you might as well kill yourself. You're taking up space, air.
There’s less need to slowly acclimate these guys to the tank, ” Bailey said. “They’ll be food pretty soon, so their happiness is less important than the shark’s.
