Regret

Verses for when you have done harm and want to begin again.

  • He who having been heedless is heedless no more, illuminates this world like the moon freed from clouds.

    Chapter 13: The World, verse 6

  • He, who by good deeds covers the evil he has done, illuminates this world like the moon freed from clouds.

    Chapter 13: The World, verse 7

  • Should a person commit evil, let him not do it again and again. Let him not find pleasure therein, for painful is the accumulation of evil.

    Chapter 9: Wickedness, verse 2

  • Think not lightly of good, saying, "It will not come to me." Drop by drop is the water pot filled. Likewise, the wise man, gathering it little by little, fills himself with good.

    Chapter 9: Wickedness, verse 7

  • By oneself is evil done; by oneself is one defiled. By oneself is evil left undone; by oneself is one made pure. Purity and impurity depend on oneself; no one can purify another.

    Chapter 12: The Self, verse 9

  • Easily seen is the fault of others, but one's own fault is difficult to see. Like chaff one winnows another's faults, but hides one's own, even as a crafty fowler hides behind sham branches.

    Chapter 18: Stains, verse 18

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