why wouldn't Buddha lived ? he wasn't a cult leader or anything he just walk his own life, what people make of him and what he believed in is something else.
...there isnt 'one' enlightened one remember. There are as many teachers as their are lessons to be learned.
One moment of true, honest introspection is more instructive than one thousand difficult experiences... true understanding of difficult experience is the ultimate wisdom; grasp not of the superficial facts of difficulty, but the true causes and rammifications.
The only value pain can offer is knowledge of how to manage or avoid that pain in the future.
"They say that history is the greatest of all teachers, and that tales of past deeds define who we are in the present, and what we shall be in the future. It is said that such tales shall with each telling illuminate us all with the light of truth."
“There is nothing outside of yourself that can ever enable you to get better, stronger, richer, quicker, or smarter. Everything is within. Everything exists. Seek nothing outside of yourself”
“It is difficult to understand the universe if you only study one planet”
“To know ten thousand things, know one well”
“You may abandon your own body but you must preserve your honour”
“There is nothing outside of yourself that can ever enable you to get better, stronger, richer, quicker, or smarter. Everything is within. Everything exists. Seek nothing outside of yourself”
That is indeed true.
"Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it."
"Anger or hatred is like a fisherman's hook. It is very important for us to ensure we are not caught by it."
"If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy practice compassion."
"True spirituality is a mental attitude you can practice at any time."
“Now there’s something for you to think about. If you don’t know that you can’t do something, isn’t there a remote possibility that you’ll go ahead and do it anyway in absolute defiance of physical law? That might be one of the drawbacks of education. If you don’t know that you can’t pick yourself up by the scruff of the neck and hold yourself at arm’s length, maybe you can.”
“Nothing that ever happens is so unimportant that it doesn't change things.”
We are each unique beings with a unique path in life. If we wish to be fulfilled, we need to go to our own hearts for direction.
"The first step toward change is acceptance." "Once you accept yourself, you open the door to change. That's all you have to do." "Change is not something you do, it's something you allow." Will Garcia
Master your past in the present, or your past will master your future.
People become what they expect themselves to become.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sail. Explore. Dream. Discover." Mark Twain
Peace, joy, health and well-being can only be found inside us. They exist within us now, waiting to be discovered. Yet we tend to look to the outside world to satisfy our needs and longings.
Our outer life reflects back to us the way we think, feel and behave. The outer world is all effects. Go to the source inside for all of life's treasures.
"Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless."- Mother Teresa
Those who confess ignorance show it once. The person who conceals it shows it many times.
"Perchance he for whom this bell tolls may be so ill, as that he knows not it tolls for him; and perchance I may think myself so much better than I am, as that they who are about me, and see my state, may have caused it to toll for me, and I know not that. … No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend’s or of thine own were: any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee."
John Donne (1572-1631), Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions, Meditation XVII: Nunc Lento Sonitu Dicunt, Morieris
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People believed in what they wanna believed.
As a final quote from me , I would like to add , you feel free to think about it :
" Harmed , is the guilty. "
You cannot discover oceans unless you have the courage to leave the shore."- Successories
The brightest future will always be based on a forgotten past. You can't go on well in life until you let go of your past failures and heartaches.
One moment of true, honest introspection is more instructive than one thousand difficult experiences... true understanding of difficult experience is the ultimate wisdom; grasp not of the superficial facts of difficulty, but the true causes and rammifications.
The only value pain can offer is knowledge of how to manage or avoid that pain in the future.
- a narrator from IWD
"Be gentle with the earth." Dali Lama
"Share your knowledge. It's a way to achieve immortality." Dali Lama
"In disagreements with loved ones, deal only with the current situation. Don't bring up the past." Dali Lama
“It is difficult to understand the universe if you only study one planet”
“To know ten thousand things, know one well”
“You may abandon your own body but you must preserve your honour”
- everything by Miyamoto Musashi
That is indeed true.
"Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it."
"Anger or hatred is like a fisherman's hook. It is very important for us to ensure we are not caught by it."
"If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy practice compassion."
"True spirituality is a mental attitude you can practice at any time."
Dalai Lama.
“Nothing that ever happens is so unimportant that it doesn't change things.”
David Eddings, Polgara the Sorceress
We must find a better way to transport monkeys - Anduin
"The first step toward change is acceptance." "Once you accept yourself, you open the door to change. That's all you have to do." "Change is not something you do, it's something you allow." Will Garcia
Master your past in the present, or your past will master your future.
People become what they expect themselves to become.
Focus on the positive in your life, for what you focus on increases.
Fall seven times get up eight.
Ignorance breeds fear. Fear breeds hate. Hate breeds violence.
-- Samuel Butler
Peace, joy, health and well-being can only be found inside us. They exist within us now, waiting to be discovered. Yet we tend to look to the outside world to satisfy our needs and longings.
"Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless."- Mother Teresa
Those who confess ignorance show it once. The person who conceals it shows it many times.
To change our lives, we must first change our minds.
Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.
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No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend’s or of thine own were: any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee."
John Donne (1572-1631), Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions, Meditation XVII: Nunc Lento Sonitu Dicunt, Morieris
Beauty lay in potential. Ugliness lay in actuality.
braucht's eine viertel Stunde kaum.
Doch zu wachsen bis man ihn bewundert,
bedenk es, braucht es ein Jahrhundert."
"To cut down a beautiful tree
it takes not even a quarter hour.
But for it to grow till one can admire it,
keep in mind, takes it a century."
"It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees." Dolores Ibarruri
Honor your feelings. They tell the truth about how you really experience the world.
be happy about what is
and open for what comes.
Life is beautiful but no one said it is easy."