“The mind is everything. What you think you become.”
— Gautama Buddha
Attributed (paraphrase of Dhammapada 1)
A widely-shared paraphrase of the opening verse of the Dhammapada ("Mind precedes all mental states"), not a verbatim translation. The attribution to the Buddha captures his teaching on the primacy of mind.
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