Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute. So that view is very helpful to maintain a peace of mind because the main destroyer of a peaceful mind is anger.

Dalai Lama

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If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly our whole life would change.

Buddha

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Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.

Buddha

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All that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts and made up of our thoughts. If a man speak or act with an evil thought, suffering follows him as the wheel follows the hoof of the beast that draws the wagon.... If a man speak or act with a good thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him.

Buddha

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The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.

Buddha

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Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.

Buddha

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