The answer may be just a book away!
“Imagine someone searching for some understanding,
some answer to the confusion of life. This person
knows that things aren’t quite right. There must be
better ways to live one’s life than this. She or he
searches and picks up yet another book and lo and
behold finds the answer to his or her quest. — That’s
It! — and life changes forever.” —Venerable NĂ nadassi
Buddha said:
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. Do not believe anything because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything because it is written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and the benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
Albert Einstein said:
The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. It should transcend personal God and avoid dogma and theology. Covering both the natural and the spiritual, it should be based on a religious sense arising from the experience of all things natural and spiritual as a meaningful unity. Buddhism answers this description. If there is any religion that could cope with modern scientific needs it would be Buddhism.
Thomas William Rhys Davids said:
"Buddhist or not Buddhist, I have examined every one of the great religious systems of the world, and in none of them have I found anything to surpass, in beauty and comprehensiveness, the Noble Eightfold Path and the Four Noble Truths of the Buddha. I am content to shape my life according to that path."
Download English Tipitaka
Khuddaka Nikaya
Vimanavatthu http://www.mediafire.com/?oeshgdpxv8285du
Petavatthu http://www.mediafire.com/?38dv4z294hbqz66
Cariyapitaka http://www.mediafire.com/?w33738y0ge1d4p3
Abhidhamma Pitaka Yamaka http://www.mediafire.com/?3nccf4irjc6hex6
Maha Buddhavamsa (The Great Chronicle Of Buddha)
http://dhammadownload.com/MinGunSayaDaw-eBookInEnglish.htm
Latin Quotations
Ab alio expectes alteri quod faceris: Expect to receive such treatment as you have given
Amicus Plato, sed magis amica veritas: Plato is my friend, but truth is a better friend
Cum deo bene faciendo bene faciet: If we are doing good, goodness will come to us.
Damnant quod non intellegunt: They condemn what they do not understand.
Esse quam videri: To be, rather than to seem to be.
Experientia docent sapientiam: Through experience we can be wise
In via virtuti pervia - In the road which is accessible to valour.
In silentio et spe fortitude mea: In silence and hope will emerge strength
Magna vis fidelitatis: The force of fidelity is great.
Medio tutissimus ibis: You will go most safely by the middle course
Nil volentibus arduum: Nothing is impossible if you really want it
Nosce te ipsum: Know yourself
Nunc aut nunquam: Now or never
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