There are two things that we should avoid, oh disciple! A life of pleasures, that is low and vain. A life of mortification, that is useless and vain.
Our good and bad deeds follow us almost like a shadow.
Even loss and betrayal can bring us awakening.
Mindfulness of the body leads to nirvana.
Joyously participate in the sorrows of others.
The Ill-directed mind can do to you even worse.
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.
There are two fatal errors that keep great projects from coming to life: 1. Not finishing 2. Not starting.