Selected Verses from the Dhammapada
Translated by P. Lal...Chapter: Ten Twin Verses...page 39




We are what we think,
having become what we thought.
Like the wheel that follows the cart-pulling ox,
Sorrow follows an evil thought.
And joy follows a pure thought,
like a shadow faithfully tailing a man.
We are what we think,
having become what we thought.



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