From Śāntideva: “But if, through seeking happiness, my deeds are wrong, no matter where I turn my steps, the knives of misery will cut me down, the wage and retribution of a sinful life.”
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Quote of the day 06/19/25
From the Sabbasava-sutta: “So soon as there springs up within him an angry, malicious thought, some sinful, wrong disposition, … he puts it away, removes it, destroys it, he makes it not to be.”
Quote of the day 06/09/25
From R.H. Blyth: “It is only the simple but far-reaching fact that Goodness is on the side of goodness rather than badness, that is to say, the fact that evil in its own nature destroys itself, that makes Iago a failure.”