Satisfaction linked with dishonor or with harm to others is a prison for the seeker.
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.
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Devotion, like fire, goeth upward.
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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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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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In doubt if an action is just, abstain.
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Happiness comes to them who bring happiness to others.
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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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Let us be such as help the life of the future.
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All flows out from the Deity, and all must be absorbed in Him again.
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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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Doing good to others is not a duty. It is a joy, for it increases your own health and happiness.
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When you are in doubt abstain.
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He who upholds Truth with all the might of his power, He who upholds Truth the utmost in his word and deed,He, indeed, is Thy most valued helper, O Mazda Ahura!
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For a thinking man is where Wisdom is at home.
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A reflective, contented mind is the best possession.
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Excessive liberty and excessive servitude are equally dangerous, and produce nearly the same effect.
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Seek your happiness in the happiness of all.
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Happiness comes to them who bring happiness to others.
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Turn yourself not away from three best things: Good Thought, Good Word, and Good Deed.
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Your good thoughts, good words and good deeds alone will be your intercessors. Nothing more will be wanted. They alone will serve you as a safe pilot to the harbour of Heaven, as a safe guide to the gates of paradise.
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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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By my love and my hope I beseech you – do not forsake hero in your soul!
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Do not hold grain waiting for higher prices when people are hungry.
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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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Explore the River of the Soul; whence or in what order you have come.
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Things divine are not attainable by mortals who understand sensual things.
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A knife of the keenest steel requires the whetstone, and the wisest man needs advice.
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