Live and allow others to live; hurt no one; life is dear to all living beings.
Interpretation
Respect the lives of others and do not cause harm.
This quote emphasizes the importance of coexistence and compassion in our interactions with others. It suggests that all living beings hold their lives as valuable, and therefore, we should strive to live harmoniously and avoid causing pain or suffering to others.
In practice
This quote can be used in a speech on promoting peace and understanding among different communities.
If one undertakes retrospection of the day's events, one must do it regularly at the appointed hour, not fitfully, not doing it today, neglecting to do it tomorrow and the day after and then taking it up again on the fourth day. Such irregular practice is not conducive to the confirmation of the habit of retrospection.
If you want to cultivate a habit, do it without any reservation, till it is firmly established. Until it is so confirmed, until it becomes a part of your character, let there be no exception, no relaxation of effort.
Attachment and aversion are the root cause of karma, and karma originates from infatuation. Karma is the root cause of birth and death, and these are said to be the source of misery. None can escape the effect of their own past karma.
Start the practice of self-control with some penance; begin with fasting.
Anger begets more anger, and forgiveness and love lead to more forgiveness and love.
Modes are infinite, and laws are infinite.
You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks.
I never felt any attraction towards violence. I never tried to express myself through violence. Violence is a language.
War is the province of danger.
For mines are for men, not for money. And money is not something to go mad about, and throw your hat into the air for. Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children. Money is for security, and for dreams, and for hopes, and for purposes. Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
The image of myself which I try to create in my own mind in order that I may love myself is very different from the image which I try to create in the minds of others in order that they may love me.
I don't want it to end, and so, as every therapist knows, the ego does not want an end to its βproblemsβ because they are part of its identity. If no one will listen to my sad story, I can tell it to myself in my head, over and over, and feel sorry for myself, and so have an identity as someone who is being treated unfairly by life or other people, fate or God. It gives definition to my self-image, makes me into someone, and that is all that matters to the ego.
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