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«...when we finally know we are dying, and all other sentient beings are dying with us, we start to have a burning, almost heartbreaking sense of the fragility and preciousness of each moment and each being, and from this can grow a deep, clear, limitless compassion for all beings.»
Author: Sogyal Rinpoche
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fragility, heartbreaking, limitless, preciousness, sentient, sentient beings
«Believing as I do that man in the distant future will be a far more perfect creature than he now is, it is an intolerable thought that he and all other sentient beings are doomed to complete annihilation after such long-continued slow progress»
Author: Charles Darwin
(Author, Naturalist)
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Belief
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annihilation, continued, distant, doomed, intolerable, sentient, sentient beings
«Just as you have the instinctive natural desire to be happy and overcome suffering, so do all sentient beings; just as you have the right to fulfill this innate aspiration, so do all sentient beings. So on what exact grounds do you discriminate?»
Author: Dalai Lama
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aspiration, discriminate, discriminated, discriminates, discriminating, exact, fulfill, grounds, innate, instinctive, Natural right, natural rights, sentient, sentient beings
«As a Buddhist monk my concern extends to all members of the human family and, indeed, to all sentient beings who suffer. I believe all suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their own happiness or satisfaction.»
Author: Dalai Lama
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Buddhist, Buddhists, Buddhist monk, caused, concern, extended family, extends, inflict, members, monk, of their own, pursuit, selfish, sentient, sentient beings, The Monk, The Monks
«My favorite quotation from Shantideva's book is: 'As long as space endures, as long as sentient beings remain, until then, may I too remain and dispel the miseries of the world.'»
Author: Dalai Lama
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dispel, dispelling, endures, favorite, miseries, quotation, sentient, sentient beings
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