Zoroaster Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“A reflective, contented mind is the best possession.”
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“With an open mind, seek and listen to all the highest ideals. Consider the most enlightened thoughts. Then choose your path, person by person, each for oneself.”
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“Turn yourself not away from three best things: Good Thought, Good Word, and Good Deed.”
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“Do not hold grain waiting for higher prices when people are hungry.”
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“By my love and my hope I beseech you - do not forsake hero in your soul!”
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“Doing good to others is not a duty. It is a joy, for it increases your own health and happiness.”
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“That which is good for all and any one, For whomsoever- that is good for me. . . What I hold good for self, I should for all. Only Law Universal is true law.”
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“Beware of lust; it corrupteth both the body and the mind.”
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“He who sows the ground with care and diligence acquires a greater stock of religious merit than he could gain by the repetition of ten thousand prayers”
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“He who abhors and shuns the light of the Sun,He who refuses to behold with respect the living creation of God,He who leads the good to wickedness,He who makes the meadows waterless and the pastures desolate,He who lets fly his weapon against the innocent,An enemy of my faith, a destroyer of Thy principles is he, O Lord!”
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“Let us be such as help the life of the future.”
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“Your good thoughts, good words and good deeds alone will be your intercessors. Nothing more will be wanted. They alone will serve you as a safe pilot to the harbour of Heaven, as a safe guide to the gates of paradise.”
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“Form no covetous desire, so that the demon of greediness may not deceive thee, and the treasure of the world may not be tasteless to thee.”
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“A righteous government is of all the most to be wished for,Bearing of blessing and good fortune in the highest.Guided by the law of Truth, supported by dedication and zeal,It blossoms into the Best of Order, a Kingdom of Heaven!To effect this I shall work now and ever more.”
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“When we are in doubt whether an action is good or bad, abstain from it.”
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“Always meet petulance with gentleness and perverseness with kindness. A gentle hand can lead even en elephant by a hair. Reply to thine enemy with gentleness.”
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“War and courage have done more great things than charity. Not your sympathy, but your bravery has saved the unfotunate.”
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“One need not scale the heights of the heavens, nor travel along the highways of the world to find Ahura Mazda. With purity of mind and holiness of heart one can find Him in one's own heart.”
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“In the beginning there were two primal spirits,Twins spontaneously active,These are the Good and the Evil, in thought, and in word, and in deed.”
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“Excessive liberty and excessive servitude are equally dangerous, and produce nearly the same effect.”
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“He who upholds Truth with all the might of his power,He who upholds Truth the utmost in his word and deed,He, indeed, is Thy most valued helper, O Mazda Ahura!”
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“Things divine are not attainable by mortals who understand sensual things.”
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“All flows out from the Deity, and all must be absorbed in Him again.”
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“Satisfaction linked with dishonor or with harm to others is a prison for the seeker.”
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“You shall love peace as a means to new wars - and the short peace more than the long.”
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“Truth is best (of all that is) good. As desired, what is being desired is truth for him who (represents) the best truth. (Gathas 27.14)”
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“Explore the River of the Soul; whence or in what order you have come...”
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