Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant with the weak and wrong. Sometime in your life, you will have been all of these.
A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again; but if he is peaceful, loving and fearless then he is in truth called wise.
Whatever a monk keeps pursuing with his thinking and pondering, that becomes the inclination of his awareness.
If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
Words do not express thoughts very well; every thing immediately becomes a little different, a little distorted, a little foolish. And yet it also pleases me and seems right that what is of value and wisdom of one man seems nonsense to another.
If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly our whole life would change.
Do not look for a sanctuary in anyone except your self.
Nothing ever exists entirely alone; everything is in relation to everything else.
Nothing can harm you as much as your own thoughts unguarded.
Meditate. Live purely. Be quiet. Do your work with mastery. Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine.
As rain falls equally on the just and the unjust, do not burden your heart with judgements but rain your kindness equally on all.
Set your heart on doing good. Do it over and over again, and you will be filled with joy.
The past is already gone, the future is not yet here. There’s only one moment for you to live, and that is the present moment.
As you walk and eat and travel, be where you are. Otherwise you will miss most of your life.
If we fail to look after others when they need help, who will look after us?
A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.
Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.
In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.