"It is always a question of knowing and seeing, and not that of believing. The teaching of the Buddha is qualified as ehi-passika, inviting you to 'come and see', but not to come and believe."

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Source : Walpola Rahula (2014). “What the Buddha Taught”, p.18, Oneworld Publications

Walpola Rahula

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“We must give up all that we are in order to possess all that He is.”

Source : Heidi Baker, Shara Pradhan (2008). “Compelled by Love”, p.143, Charisma Media
“It's good to know that other people think differently, and that's what makes the characters interesting.”
“Biochemically, love is just like eating large amounts of chocolate.”
“That's one of the things I hope that the book can do, is to restore some dignity to Joe Cinque.”
“Everyone is your best friend when you are successful. Make sure that the people that you surround yourself with are also the people that you are not afraid of failing with.”
“The need to understand prescription information can literally be a matter of life and death.”
“We can't understand when we're pregnant, or when our siblings are expecting, how profound it is to have a shared history with a younger generation: blood, genes, humor. It means we were actually here, on Earth, for a time - like the Egyptians with their pyramids, only with children.”
“Despite history, despite English, despite the noteworthies, and a little bit also despite ourselves, alas!, the Quebecois people have stayed French. I had violently returned. This people had no need of directives to affirm its French pride in the face of the whole world”

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