The kashays (inner anger, pride, deceit and greed) that keep one entrenched in the coolness of the worldly life are the very thing that makes one wander life after life.
Holmes took up the stone and held it against the light. It's a bonny thing, said he. Just see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and focus of crime. Every good stone is. They are th...
(n.) An eager desire or longing; greediness; as, a greed of gain.
Still another danger is represented by those who, paying lip service to democracy and the common welfare, in their insatiable greed for money and the power which money gives, do not hesitate surreptit...
If it has anything to do with me, it has nothing to do with sacrifice.
Complacency delivered us into the hands of evil greedy men like Cheney.
Greed applied is prosperity realized". ~R. Alan Woods [2006]
The shortest short-term investment is to serve ourselves.
We cherish reprobates, not for their cruelty, but for their little show of patronage.
Mankind's obsession with money and greed has them going down a one way street to their demise.
Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he's fresh out of law school, you gave him a license to steal.
I liked his attention. But I also felt like there was something sick and wrong about it. Like it might make me sick later. I thought of my grandmother, my father's mother. How when I used to visit her...
There is no samkit (vision with right belief that I am Pure Soul) where there are kashays [anger, pride, deceit and greed], and where there are no kashays, there is samkit (self realization).
If necessity is the mother of invention, then surely greed must be the father. Children of this odd couple are named: Laziness, Envy, Greed, Jr., Gluttony, Lust, Anger and Pride.
O Indra, destroy all those lustful peoplebehaving like birds....angry onesbehaving like wolves....greedy onesbehaving like vultures....enticed ones behaving like owls..... arrogant ones behaivng like...
When prayer, rituals and ascetic life are just a means of self-indulgence, they are harmful rather than beneficial.
Humankind has not learned about balance, let alone practiced it. It is guided by greed and ambition, steered by fear. In this way it will eventually destroy itself. But nature will survive; at least t...
Our prayers are something akin to delivering a list, verses surrendering a life. The former will always leave me creating the next list, while the latter will leave me creating a new life.
In this avaricious world, even a beggar needs money in his bowl, to be heard.
All right people, listen up! If you've got a family back home waiting for you or if you just want to save your own skin, turn around and walk away. Also, women! I have no intention of fighting any wom...
The more we thank God, the less we ask of him.
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