Discover which actions truly produce happiness and which result in suffering. Using discernment, take up what brings benefit and discard what causes harm. Live accordingly and you will be on the right path.

17th Karmapa

from the book The Future Is Now: Timely Advice for Creating a Better World

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Further quotes from the book The Future Is Now:

• Coexisting in delicate balance
• Use your brain
• Be your own guide
• Friends
• Investigation
• True peace
• Intelligence
• Just for the fun of it
• Aspire to great things
• The benefits of dharma
• Living harmoniously with others
• Human life
• Lighten up
• Guidance on the own path
• Why not support others
• Serving the common interest
• Dialogue
• Impermanence
• How to decide