/lit/ - Literature

>Mind precedes all mental states. Mind is theirchief; they are all mind-wrought. If with an im-pure mind a person speaks or acts suffering fol-lows him like the wheel that follows the foot of the ox.
> Mind precedes all mental states. Mind is their chief; they are all mind-wrought. If with a pure mind a person speaks or acts happiness follows him like his never-departing shadow.
>“He abused me, he struck me, he overpowered me, he robbed me.” Those who harbor such thoughts do not still their hatred.
>“He abused me, he struck me, he overpowered me, he robbed me.” Those who do not harbor such thoughts still their hatred.
>Hatred is never appeased by hatred in this world. By non-hatred alone is hatred appeased. This is a law eternal.

The Dhammapada.

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