Daily Dharma

(Translated by F. Max Müller)

All that we are is the result of what we have thought:
it is founded on our thoughts,
it is made up of our thoughts.
If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought,
happiness follows him,
like a shadow that never leaves him.

― Dhammapada 2 — ”


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