Doing good to others is not a duty. It is a joy, for it increases your own health and happiness.
ZOROASTERDoing good to others is not a duty. It is a joy, for it increases your own health and happiness.
ZOROASTERLet us be such as help the life of the future.
ZOROASTERThings divine are not attainable by mortals who understand sensual things.
ZOROASTERTurn yourself not away from three best things: Good Thought, Good Word, and Good Deed.
ZOROASTERYou shall love peace as a means to new wars – and the short peace more than the long.
ZOROASTEROne good deed is worth a thousand prayers.
ZOROASTERHappiness comes to them who bring happiness to others.
ZOROASTERForm no covetous desire, so that the demon of greediness may not deceive thee, and the treasure of the world may not be tasteless to thee.
ZOROASTERExcessive liberty and excessive servitude are equally dangerous, and produce nearly the same effect.
ZOROASTERWar and courage have done more great things than charity. Not your sympathy, but your bravery has saved the unfotunate.
ZOROASTERIn doubt if an action is just, abstain.
ZOROASTERExplore the River of the Soul; whence or in what order you have come.
ZOROASTEROne need not scale the heights of the heavens, nor travel along the highways of the world to find Ahura Mazda. With purity of mind and holiness of heart one can find Him in one’s own heart.
ZOROASTERIf one would have a friend, then must one also be willing to wage war for him: and in order to wage war, one must be capable of being an enemy.
ZOROASTERTruth is best (of all that is) good. As desired, what is being desired is truth for him who (represents) the best truth. (Gathas 27.14)
ZOROASTERSuffer no anxiety, for he who is a sufferer of anxiety becomes regardless of enjoyment of the world and the spirit, and contraction happens to his body and soul.
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