The Sacred Teachings

"Everything, O Jatilas, is burning. The eye is burning, all the senses are burning, thoughts are burning. They are burning with the fire of lust. There is anger, there is ignorance, there is hatred, and as long as the fire finds inflammable things upon which it can feed, so long will it burn, and there will be birth and death, decay, grief, lamentation, suffering, despair, and sorrow. Considering this, a disciple of the Dharma will see the four noble truths and walk in the eightfold path of holiness. He will become wary of his eye, wary of all his senses, wary of his thoughts. He will divest himself of passion and become free. He will be delivered from selfishness and attain the blessed state of Nirvāna." 

XIX - Kassapa - Gospel of Buddha 

“They are not sensuality, the pretty things in the world:  a person’s sensuality is volitional lust;  the pretty things remain just…

Destiny may be likened to a man who must travel to a distant city whether or not he wishes to make the journey, the destination being his destiny. He may choose whether to go by way of a river or by way of a plain; whether across mountains or through forests, on foot or horseback, slow or fast, and whatever befalls because of this decision is fate. If a tree falls on him because he chose the forest path, it was fated, for luck is an element of fate. Destiny leaves no choice, fate gives limited choice which may be good or bad, but it cannot be averted. What is fated must be, for at no point can there be any turning back. - The Kolbrin Bible: Egyptian Texts of the Bronzebook

2:5: Men set their hearts on certain things and make plans for their attainment, but unless the plans…

For Generation and Time, in Heaven and in Earth, are of

a double Nature; in Heaven they are unchangeable and

incorruptible; but on Earth they are changeable and

corruptible.

And the Soul of Eternity is God; and the Soul of the

World, Eternity; and of the Earth, Heaven.