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Someone else's action should not determine your response.
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Someone else's action should not determine your response.
If you have only education and knowledge and a lack of the other side, then you may not be a happy person, but a person of mental unrest, of frustration. Not only that, but if you combine these two, your whole life will be a constructive and happy life. And certainly you can make immense benefit for society and the betterment of humanity. That is one of my fundamental beliefs: that a good heart, a warm heart, a compassionate heart, is still teachable.
I believe all suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their happiness or satisfaction. Yet true happiness comes from a sense of inner peace and contentment, which in turn must be achieved through the cultivation of altruism, of love and compassion and elimination of ignorance, selfishness and greed.
True spirituality is a mental attitude you can practice at any time.
I believe the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness. Whether one believes in religion or not, whether one believes in that religion or this religion, we are all seeking something better in life. So, I think, the very motion of our life is towards happiness.
When selflessness is seen in objects, the seed of cyclic existence is destroyed.
Compassion naturally creates a positive atmosphere, and as a result you feel peaceful and content.
Instead of wondering why this is happening to you, consider why this is happening to you.
If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them.
Despite all philosophical differences, all major world religions have the same potential to create good human beings.