Life is swept along, next-to-nothing its span. For one swept to old age no shelters exist. Perceiving this danger in death, one should drop the world's bait and look for peace.

Buddha

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To live in the consciousness of the inevitability of suffering, of becoming enfeebled, of old age and of death, is impossible. We must free ourselves from life, from all possible life.

Buddha

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Don't use Buddhism to become a Buddhist. Use Buddhism to become better at whatever else in your life you are doing already.

Dalai Lama

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Let those who desire Buddhahood not train in many Dharmas but only one. Which one? Great compassion. Those with great compassion possess all the Buddha's teaching as if it were in the palm of their hand.

Buddha

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I having pierced through the shell of ignorance for the sake of creatures wrapped in ignorance, egg-born (as it were), am unique in the world, utterly enlightened with unsurpassed enlightenment. I myself am the world's eldest and highest.

Buddha

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Love is a fleeting emotion, to reach true nirvana one must know themselves and forsake love, for it breeds contempt.

Buddha

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