Notes from Wikiquote
This is actually a pithy modern-day 'summary' of the "Abhaya Sutta" (AN 4.184). It appears in "Buddha’s Little Instruction Book" by Jack Kornfield (p88).
More quotes by Gautama Buddha
As rain breaks through an ill-thatched house, passion will break through an unreflecting mind.
“Well, Lord, is the soul the same as the body, is the soul one thing and the body another?”
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