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Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

The mind is everything. What we think, we become.

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant.

Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.

On a long journey of human life, faith is the best of companions; it is the best refreshment on the journey; and it is the greatest property.

Wisdom is not communicable. The wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate always sounds foolish.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

Believe nothing,No matter where you read it,Or who has said it,Not even if I have said it,Unless it agrees with your own reasonAnd your own common sense.

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles.

During deep meditation it is possible to dispel time, to see simultaneously all the past, present, and future, and then everything is good, everything is perfect, everything is Brahman.

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.

Three things cannot long be hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.

To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt.

There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge – that is everywhere.

When words are both true and kind, they can change the world.

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.

If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.

The river is everywhere at the same time . . . everywhere and the present only exists for it, not the shadow of the past, nor the shadow of the future.

He looked around, as if he was seeing the world for the first time. Beautiful was the world, colorful was the world, strange and mysterious was the world! Here was blue, here was yellow, here was green, the sky and the river flowed, the forest and the mountains were rigid, all of it was beautiful, all of it was mysterious and magical, and in its midst was he, Siddhartha, the awakening one, on the path to himself.

I want to learn from myself, want to be my student, want to get to know myself, the secret of Siddhartha.

Nothing was, nothing will be, everything has reality and presence

Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

Dreams and restless thoughts came flowing to him from the river, from the twinkling stars at night, from the sun’s melting rays. Dreams and a restlessness of the soul came to him.

He lost his Self a thousand times and for days on end he dwelt in non-being. But although the paths took him away from Self, in the end they always led back to it. Although Siddhartha fled from the Self a thousand times, dwelt in nothing, dwelt in animal and stone, the return was inevitable; the hour was inevitable when he would again find himself in sunshine or in moonlight, in shadow or in rain, and was again Self and Siddhartha, again felt the torment of the onerous life cycle.

Unity can only be manifested by the Binary. Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two.

What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.

All things appear and disappear because of the concurrence of causes and conditions. Nothing ever exists entirely alone; everything is in relation to everything else.

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

. . . gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.

Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world’s phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.