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Explore the River of the Soul; whence or in what order you have come.

Zoroaster

Do not lose joy in life as you grow old in years. Let not your ‘joie de vivre be crushed under the weight of years.
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Growth Joy Life Lose Old Weight
Seek your happiness in the happiness of all.
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Advice Happiness Kindness Life Seek
Excessive liberty and excessive servitude are equally dangerous, and produce nearly the same effect.
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Dangerous Equality Liberty Service
Seek your happiness in the happiness of all.
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Advice Happiness Kindness Life Seek
With an open mind, seek and listen to all the highest ideals. Consider the most enlightened thoughts. Then choose your path, person by person, each for oneself.
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Enlightenment Mind Path
He who sows the ground with care and diligence acquires a greater stock of religious merit than he could gain by the repetition of ten thousand prayers.
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Care Greatness Prayer Religious Repeat
A knife of the keenest steel requires the whetstone, and the wisest man needs advice.
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Advice Knife Man Material Need Wisdom
When you are in doubt abstain.
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Doubt One Liner Wait Yourself
Now the two primal Spirits, who reveal themselves in vision as Twins, are the Better and the Bad, in thought and word and action. Between these two the wise ones chose aright; the foolish not so.
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Bed Better Fools Reveal Spirit Vision Word
If 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.
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Enemy Friendship Oneself Order War Willing
When we are in doubt whether an action is good or bad, abstain from it.
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Action Avoid Bad Doubt Goodness
For a thinking man is where Wisdom is at home.
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Home Men Thinking Wisdom
All flows out from the Deity, and all must be absorbed in Him again.
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Flow God Himself Return
War and courage have done more great things than charity. Not your sympathy, but your bravery has saved the unfotunate.
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Bravery Charity Fortunate Greatness Save Sympathy War
Beware of lust; it corrupteth both the body and the mind.
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Body Corruption Lust Mind
Form 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.
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Desire God Greed Taste Treasure World
Doing good to others is not a duty. It is a joy, for it increases your own health and happiness.
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Goodness Happiness Health Joy Yourself
Always meet petulance with gentleness and perverseness with kindness. A gentle hand can lead even en elephant by a hair. Reply to thine enemy with gentleness.
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Enemy Gentle Hairs Hands Kindness Perseverance
Suffer 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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Anxiety Body Enjoyment Soul Spirit Suffering Worry
Seek your happiness in the happiness of all.
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Advice Happiness Kindness Life Seek
If 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.
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Enemy Friendship Oneself Order War Willing
Devotion, like fire, goeth upward.
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Devotion Fire Inspirational Passionate
Truth 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)
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Best Deep Desire Goodness Truth Wisdom
Explore the River of the Soul; whence or in what order you have come.
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Order Rivers Soul Yourself
I who have set my heart on watching over the soul, in union with Good Thought, and as knowing the rewards of Mazda Ahura for our works, will, while I have power and strength, teach men to seek after Right. I have become an alien in a foreign land.
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Goodness Heart Men Power Seek Soul Strength Teaching Thinking Unity
Things divine are not attainable by mortals who understand sensual things.
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Divine Mortal Religion Sensual Understand
One 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.
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Heart Heaven Himself Meditation Mindset Need Oneself Purity Travel

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