The Buddha Speaks...

"Once Ananda, his cousin, devoted attendant, and beloved pupil, said to the
Buddha.

'It would seem one half of the spiritual life is friendship with good
people, association with good people, and communion with good people.'

The Buddha said in reply,

'It is not so, Ananda, it is not so.

It is not one
half of the spiritual life, it is the entire spiritual life.'"...


Gautama the Buddha..


_Samyutta Nikaya_, verse 2
in Roy J. Matthew, M. D.
_The True Path:
Western Science and the Quest for Yoga_
Cambridge MA: Perseus Publishing, 2001, p. 220