The mentor can be identified by four things: by restraining you from wrongdoing, guiding you towards good actions, telling you what you ought to know, and showing you the path to heaven.
Life can only take place in the present moment. If we lose the present moment, we lose life.
Your days pass like rainbows, like a flash of lightning, like a star at dawn. Your life is short. How can you quarrel?
We begin to die from the moment we are born, for birth is the cause of death. The nature of decay is inherent in youth, the nature of sickness is inherent in health, in the midst of life we are verily in death.
Before giving, the mind of the giver is happy; while giving, the mind of the giver is made peaceful; and having given, the mind of the giver is uplifted.
Do not be the judge of people; do not make assumptions about others. A person is destroyed by holding judgments about others.
Conquer anger by love, evil by good; Conquer the miser with liberality, and the liar with truth.
Unity can only be manifested by the Binary. Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two.
This existence of ours is as transient as autumn clouds To watch the birth and death of beings is like looking at the movements of a dance. A lifetime is like a flash of lightning in the sky, Rushing by, like a torrent down a steep mountain.
You can search the entire universe and not find a single being more worthy of love than you.
Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.
Few among men are they who cross to the further shore. The others merely run up and down the bank on this side.
If anything is worth doing, do it with all your heart.
If the traveller can find A virtuous and wise companion Let him go with him joyfully And overcome the dangers of the way. But if you cannot find Friend or master to go with you, Travel on alone.
When giving to others do not linger on thoughts of a giving, what was given, or the one who has received.
Always be mindful of the kindness and not the faults of others.
An unreflective mind is a poor roof. Passion, like the rain, floods the house. But if the roof is strong, there is shelter. Whoever follows impure thoughts Suffers in this world and the next. In both worlds he suffers And how greatly.
Believe nothing because it is written in books. Believe nothing because wise men say it is so. Believe nothing because it is religious doctrine. Believe it only because you yourself know it to be true.
Those who act with few desires are calm, without worry or fear.
Joy comes not through possession or ownership but through a wise and loving heart.