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Religious Thought 192

No worldly delight is comparable to the delight that will fill your heart when you completely abandon all hopes and desires.

- Maharamayana

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Live in joy, In love, Even among those who hate. Live in joy, In health, Even among the afflicted. Live in joy, In peace, Even among the troubled. Look within. Be still. Free from fear and attachment, Know the sweet joy of the way.

- from the Dhammapada

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Religious Thought 191

Those men who for others' disgrace and their own feel equally ashamed Are regarded by the world as the abode of modesty. The great would rather defend themselves with modesty's barricade Than breach it to acquire the vast world itself.

- Tirukkural 102: 1015-1016

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According to Buddhist psychology, most of our troubles are due to our passionate desire for, attachment to things that we misapprehend as enduring entities. The pursuit of the objects of our desire and attachment involves the use of aggression and competitivenessThese mental processes easily translate into actions, breeding belligerence. Such processes have been going on in the human mind since time immemorial, but their execution has become more effective under modern conditions. What can we do to control and regulate these poisons—delusion, greed and aggression? For it is these poisons that are behind almost every trouble in the world.

- His Holiness the Dalai Lama

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