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“Yes I am, I am also a Muslim, a Christian, a Buddhist, and a Jew.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: buddhism, christian, christianity, hindu, hinduism, islam, jew, judaism, muslim, religion

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“You only lose what you cling to.”
― Guatama Buddha

tags: attachment, buddhism

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“Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything - anger, anxiety, or possessions - we cannot be free.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation

tags: anger, buddhism, freedom, happiness, peace

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“If there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it would be Buddhism.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed, attributed-to-einstein-no-source, buddhism, religion, science, unsourced

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“As crude a weapon as the cave man's club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life - a fabric on the one hand delicate and destructible, on the other miraculously tough and resilient, and capable of striking back in unexpected ways. These extraordinary capacities of life have been ignored by the practitioners of chemical control who have brought to their task no "high-minded orientation," no humility before the vast forces with which they tamper.”
― Rachel Carson, Silent Spring

tags: chemicals, life, nature

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