Death carries off a man busy picking flowers with an besotted mind, like a great flood does a sleeping village.
Gautama BuddhaRead
Overcome your uncertainties and free yourself from dwelling on sorrow. When you delight in existence, you will awaken, and become a guide to those in need, revealing the path to many.
Interpretation
Embrace life positively and help others find their way.
This quote by Gautama Buddha encourages individuals to move past their doubts and sorrows, suggesting that by finding joy in existence, one can achieve a moment of awakening. This awakening not only benefits oneself but also allows one to assist and guide others, illuminating their paths toward a more fulfilling life.
In practice
A motivational speaker might use this quote to inspire their audience to overcome fear and help others.
Death carries off a man busy picking flowers with an besotted mind, like a great flood does a sleeping village.
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The tongue like a sharp knife ... Kills without drawing blood.
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Answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question and thereby begging the real one.
Nothing is worse than active ignorance.
The best among our writers are doing their accustomed work of mirroring what is deep in the spirit of our time; if chaos appears in those mirrors, we must have faith that in the future, as always in the past, that chaos will slowly reveal itself as a new aspect of order.
The humblest praise most, while cranks & malcontents praise least. Praise almost seems to be inner health made audible
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