Religious Thought 122

If men are disposed to spread the faults of friends, What deadly harm might they do to strangers?

- Tirukkural 188

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There is, O monks, a realm, where there is neither earth, nor water, nor fire, nor wind, neither the sphere of boundless consciousness, nor the sphere of nothingness, nor the sphere of neither-perception-nor-non-perception, neither this world nor the next world, nor both together, nor moon and sun. This, O monks, I call neither a going, nor a coming, nor a standing, nor dying, nor being born. It is without a foothold, without a beginning, without a foundation. This indeed is the end of suffering.

- Udana 8.1

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That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, and made it a hundred times more beautiful.

- Mathnawi [III, 4129]

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To stand on one leg and prove God's existence is a very different thing from going on one's knees and thanking Him.

- Sren Kierkegaard

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Shammai said: Receive all people cheerfully.

- Ethics of the Fathers 1:15

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