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«As human beings we all want to be happy and free from misery? we have learned that the key to happiness is inner peace. The greatest obstacles to inner peace are disturbing emotions such as anger, attachment, fear and suspicion, while love and compassion and a sense of universal responsibility are the sources of peace and happiness.»
Author: Dalai Lama
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anger, attachment, beings, compassion, disturbing, emotions, free love, human beings, inner, Inner peace, key, misery, Obstacles, peace and love, responsibility, sense of responsibility, sources, such as, suspicion, universal, Universals
«Intelligence has no attachment to the opinion it has formed, but only to the truth it may contain; and, knowing that error insinuates itself under the guise of truth, through the same inlets by which truth is admitted, it is ever diffident of its att»
Author: Mary Worley Montagu
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Intelligence,
Truth
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admitted, attachment, contain, diffident, inlet, inlets, insinuate, insinuates, insinuating
«If you purify your soul of attachment to and desire for things, you will understand them spiritually. If you deny your appetite for them, you will enjoy their truth, understanding what is certain in them.»
«Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached»
Author: Simone Weil
(Activist, Mystic, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
attachment, attained, detached, detaching, fabricator, illusions
«Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace.»
Author: Bhagavad Gita
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attachment, follows, good practice, immediate, meditation, meditations, results, surrender
«Always perform your duty efficiently and without attachment to the results, because by doing work without attachment one attains the Supreme.»
«The very purpose of religion is to control yourself, not to criticize others. Rather, we must criticize ourselves. How much am I doing about my anger? About my attachment, about my hatred, about my pride, my jealousy? These are the things which we must check in daily life.»
Author: Dalai Lama
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attachment, check, checking, check in, Check it out, check up on, criticize, daily, hatred, in check, jealousies, jealousy, pride
«Consciousness will always be present, though a particular consciousness may cease. For example, the particular tactile consciousness that is present within this human body will cease when the body comes to an end. Likewise, consciousnesses that are influenced by ignorance, by anger or by attachment, these too will cease. But the basic, ultimate, innermost subtle consciousness will always remain. It has no beginning, and it will have not end.»
Author: Dalai Lama
| Keywords:
attachment, for example, human body, influenced, innermost, likewise, tactile
«If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
| About:
Constitution,
Principles
| Keywords:
attachment, free-thinking, free thought, imperatively
«Cruelty, material attachment, greed and anger are the four rivers of fire. Falling into them, one is burned, O Nanak! One is saved only by holding tight to good deeds.»
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