"Taking the first footstep with a good thought, the second with a good word, and the third with a good deed, I entered paradise."
Taking the first footstep
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Words
The three best things
"Turn yourself not away from three best things: Good Thought, Good Word, and Good Deed."
Conveyed by Words
"If whatsoever you have been living can be conveyed by words, that means you have not lived at all."
Let Your Arrogance Go
"The guest is inside you, and also inside me; you know the sprout is hidden inside the seed. We are all struggling; none of us has gone far. Let your arrogance go, and look around inside. The blue sky opens out farther and farther, the daily sense of failure goes...
The truth is not always beautiful
"The truth is not always beautiful, or beautiful words the truth."
Love is Mute
"Most of conflicts and tensions are due to language. Don't pay so much attention to the words. In love's country, language doesn't have its place. Love is mute."
Identification with your Mind
"Identification with your mind creates an opaque screen of concepts, labels, images, words, judgments, and definitions that blocks all true relationship. It comes between you and yourself, between you and your fellow man and woman, between you and nature, between you...
A Sense of the Miraculous
"When you don't cover up the world with words and labels, a sense of the miraculous returns to your life."
Think not
"Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults."
The Words we use for the Creator
"The words we use for the Creator are a reflect of ourselves. If we think of God as fear and shame, we are scared and have something to be ashamed of ... But if we see love, compassion and kindness, it is because we possess these qualities."