- Heedfulness is the path to the Deathless. Heedlessness is the path the death. The heedful die not ♾️. The heedless are as if dead already.
- Clearly understanding this excellence of heedfulness, the wise exult therein and enjoy the resort of the Nobles Ones.
- The wise ones, ever meditative 🤲 and steadfastly perservering 😓, alone experience Nibbana 🕊️, the incomparable freedom from bondage ⛓️.
- Ever grows the glory of him who is energetic ⚡, mindful 🧠 and pure in conduct 🤍, discerning and self-controlled 😓, righteous and heedful.
- By effort and heedfulness, discipline and self-mastery, let the wise one make for himself an island 🌴 which no flood can overwhelm.
- The foolish and ignorant indulge in heedlessness, but the wise one keeps his heedfulness as his best treasure 💭.
- Do not give way to heedlessness. Do not indulge in sensual pleasures 💵💄. Only the heedful and meditative 🤲 attain great happiness 🕊️.
- Just as upon the summit of a mountain ⛰️ beholds the groundlings, even so when the wise man casts away heedlessness by heedfulness. and ascends 🪜 the high tower of wisdom 📕, this sorrowless sage beholds the sorrowing and foolish multitude 👥.
- Heedful among the heedless, wide-awake among the sleepy, the wise man advances like a swift horse 🐎 leaving behind a weak jade.
- By Heedfulness did Indra become the overlord of the gods. Heedfulness is ever praised, and heedlessness ever despised.
- The monk who delights in heedfulness and looks with fear at heedlessness advances like fire, burning all fetters, small and large.
- The monk who delights in heedfulness and looks with fear at heedlessness will not fall. He is close to Nibbana 🕊️.
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