Why since I am myself subject to birth, ageing, disease, death, sorrows and defilement, do I seek after what is also subject to these things? Suppose, being myself subject these things, seeking danger in them, I were to seek the unborn unageing, undiseased, deathless, sorrowless, undefiled, supreme surcease of bondage, the extinction of all these troubles.

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Do not dwell in the past do not dream of the future concentrate the mind on the present moment.

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

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We are shaped by our thoughts, we become what we think. When the mind is pure joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.

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A disciplined mind brings happiness.

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