You can search the world over and you will find no one who is more deserving of your kindness and well wishing than you yourself.
Read as few words as you like, and speak fewer, but act upon the law.
Peace comes from within; do not try to seek it without.
A raft needed to cross the river is discarded when the other shore is reached, not carried about on one’s head.
To be concerned with the issue; soul versus non-soul, is to be in bondage to craving for becoming and non-becoming.
It is because I perceive the danger in the practice of mystic wonders, that I loath, abhor, and am ashamed thereof.
A person is ruined by taking the measure of other persons.
To master the pride of defiant selfhood, that in truth is the highest bliss.
Before you’ve seen it, and when you first see it, it is the greatest thing; afterwards, it is ordinary.
Only within our body, with its heart and mind, can bondage and suffering be found, and only here can we find true liberation.
Sustaining a loving heart, even for a moment, makes one a spiritual being.
Noble friends and companions are the whole of the holy life.
If a man should conquer in battle a thousand and a thousand more, and another should conquer himself, his would be the greater victory, because the greatest of victories is the victory over oneself.
All that has been hidden is rising, there is no stopping it! These things you cannot hide: the sun, the moon, and TRUTH.
There are two fatal errors that keep great projects from coming to life: 1. Not finishing 2. Not starting.
There are two obstacles to enlightenment: 1. Thinking you know. 2 Thinking you don’t know.
Know what you do not know.
There are friendships to one who lives in society; thus our present grief arises from having friendships; observing the evils resulting from friendship, let one walk alone like a rhinoceros.
Having abandoned the taking of life, refraining from killing, we dwell without violence, with the knife laid down, scrupulous, full of mercy, trembling with compassion for all sentient beings.
Suffering is temporary, enlightenment is forever.