The gift of truth excels all other gifts.
It is impossible to underestimate the significance of your today’s choices.
Remember, the greatest gift to give people your enlightenment, to share it. It has to be the greatest.
What you have become is the result of what you have thought.
Love is a fleeting emotion, to reach true nirvana one must know themselves and forsake love, for it breeds contempt.
As a mountain is unshaken by the wind, so the heart of a wise person is unmoved by all the changes on this earth.
We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act.
The end of desire is the end of sorrow.
Mutual respect and mutual listening are the foundations of harmony within the family.
Whoever has done harmful actions but later covers them up with good is like the moon which, freed from clouds, lights up the world.
A fool thinks it like honey so long as the bad deed does not bear fruit, but when it does bear fruit he experiences suffering.
Seeing the similarity to oneself, one should not use violence or have it used.
Cut out the love of self, like an autumn lotus with thy hand!
Freed by full realization and at peace, the mind of such a man is at peace, and his speech and action peaceful. He has no need for faith who knows the uncreated, who has cut off rebirth, who has destroyed any opportunity for good or evil, and cast away all desire. He is indeed the ultimate man.
How easy it is to see your brother’s faults, How hard it is to face your own.
Learn this from the waters: in mountain clefts and chasms, loud gush the streamlets, but great rivers flow silently.
There are, O monks, these four lights. What four? The light of the moon, the light of the sun, the light of fire, and the light of wisdom. Of these four lights, the light of wisdom is supreme.
I teach one thing and one only: that is, suffering and the end of suffering.
Nothing is forever except change.
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed. – Buddha No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.