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Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

Gaur Gopal Das

One’s ability to appreciate beauty is related to one’s ability to make moral judgments.
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Ability Beautiful Judgement Moral Oneself
Forgiveness is a complex concept. We must understand it thoroughly to be able to internalize it.
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Action Complication Deep Forgiveness Understand
Fight the strong urge to judge someone based on an initial interaction with them. Everyone has a fascinating story that we know nothing about.
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Fight Judgement Story Strong
Experience is not what happens to a man, it is what a man does with what happens to him.
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Deep Difference Experience Himself Man
It is strange that sword and words have the same letters.
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Deep Strange Word
When things are beyond your control and there is nothing you can do,why worry?
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Action Beyond Control Worry Yourself
Always seeing the best in people and choosing to avoid their faults.
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Avoid Choice Mistake People
A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.
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Angry Power Word
Everyone wants to get ahead of each other, and when they cannot, they get angry.
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Angry Each Other Human Nature
Feeling peaceful, happy and content is not about avoiding challenges in our life, but about how we navigate through these challenges to reach the type of life we want to live.
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Avoid Challenge Feeling Happiness Life Love Peace Reach Satisfaction
Spirituality helps develop good character. It is character that shines bright when words fail to do so.
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Character Development Failure Goodness Shine Spirituality Word
As a monk, I have to be cautious of overindulgence; it is essential to stay regulated in our habits.
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Alcohol Control Drugs Habit Myself Ourselves Stay
Our relationships are stronger when they contain a spiritual component. There are three different ways to become good friends with someone.
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Different Friendship Goodness Ourselves Relationship Spiritual Strong
To find your purpose in life, you must go on a journey of self-discovery.
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Discover Journey Life Purpose Yourself
Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.
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Job Rob Sorrow Worry Yourself
If someone chooses what they love to do, there is no stress in their life. As they say, If you do what you love, you will never have to work a day in your life.
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Choice Day Life Love Work Yourself
When upon life’s billows you are tempest-tossed, When you are discouraged, thinking all is lost, Count your many blessings, name them one by one, And it will surprise you what the Lord has done.
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Blessing Encouragement God Life Yourself
Think: Is this in my control? If yes, you can do something about it. If no, then you cannot do anything about it. Therefore, in both circumstances, why worry?
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Control Thinking Worry Yourself
Behind the smiles, everyone is going through personal struggles we know nothing about.
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Personal Smile Struggle
Even more strange is that they have the same effect if not handled properly.
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Affect Change Strange
Meditation can help us embrace our worries, our fear, our anger; and that is very healing. We let our own natural capacity of healing do the work.
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Angry Capacity Fear Healing Help Meditation Natural Ourselves Worry
Anyone can find the dirt in someone. Be the one that finds the gold.
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Deep Gold Perspective Search
This happens with all relationships, not just in marriages. If we are not proactive in our relationships, they start to seem dry and become cumbersome. We have to have respect for the other person, which is reflected in how sensitively we treat them.
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Marriage Person Reflection Relationship Start Treat
When things are beyond your control and there is nothing you can do,why worry
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Beyond Control Worry Yourself
Familiarity breeds contempt, I replied. When we are overly familiar with people, we forget how important they are to us and the correct way to behave with them.
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Correct Forget Important Myself People
The sands of time slow for no man. Things change for better and for worse, but what we choose to perceive is up to us.
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Better Change Choice Time Worse
We can increase our scope of selflessness beyond our family by serving our community, city or even nation.
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Beyond Community Family Nation Ourselves Service

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