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.
There was no black or white. Someone who had been good her entire life could, in fact, do something evil. People were just as capable of committing murder, under the right circumstances, as any monster.
The iron bolt...mysteriously fastens the door of hope and holds our spirits in a gloomy prison.
People say, 'Did you violate Heaven?' Well, God is down here, too. If you believe in God, you believe in God here as well as 240,000 miles away.
With the development of industrial capitalism, a new and unanticipated system of injustice, it is libertarian socialism that has preserved and extended the radical humanist message of the Enlightenment and the classical liberal ideals that were perverted into an ideology to sustain the emerging social order.
Awareness isnβt something we own; awareness isnβt something we possess. Awareness is actually what we are.
Nonconformity is the highest evolutionary attainment of social animals.
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