“What you are is what you have been. What you’ll be is what you do now.”

— GAUTAMA BUDDHA

Spiritual teacher · c. 563 BCE – c. 483 BCE

Founder of Buddhism; born in Lumbini (present-day Nepal), his teachings form the basis of one of the world's major religions.

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