Learn this from water: loud splashes the brook but the oceans depth are calm.
Look not to the faults of others, nor to their omissions and commissions. But rather look to your own acts, to what you have done and left undone.
The Gift of Truth excels all other Gifts.
Though one should live a hundred years without wisdom and control, yet better, indeed, is a single day's life of one who is wise and meditative.
The ignorant man is an ox. He grows in size, not in wisdom.
Generosity brings happiness at every stage of its expression. We experience joy in forming the intention to be generous. We experience joy in the actual act of giving something. And we experience joy in remembering the fact that we have given.
Do not overlook tiny good actions, thinking they are of no benefit; even tiny drops of water in the end will fill a huge vessel. Do not overlook negative actions merely because they are small; however small a spark may be, it can burn down a haystack as big as a mountain.
Be devoted to heedfulness. Guard your mind.
Victory breeds hatred. The defeated live in pain. Happily the peaceful live, giving up victory and defeat.
Whoever sees me sees the teaching, and whoever sees the teaching sees me.
The virtuous man delights in this world and he delights in the next.
Resolutely train yourself to attain peace.
Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.
In this world, hate never yet dispelled hate, only love dispels hate. This is the law, ancient and inexhaustible. You too shall pass away. Knowing this, how can you quarrel.
The wise man makes an island of himself that no flood can overwhelm.
Do not give your attention to what others do or fail to do; give it to what you do or fail to do.
Following the Noble Path is like entering a dark room with a light in the hand; the darkness will all be cleared away, and the room will be filled with light.
If the selflessness of phenomena is analyzed and if this analysis is cultivated, it causes the effect of attaining nirvana. through no other cause does one come to peace.
As a lotus flower is born in water, grows in water and rises out of water to stand above it unsoiled, so I, born in the world, raised in the world having overcome the world, live unsoiled by the world.
If you knew what I know about the power of giving you would not let a single meal pass without sharing it in some way.
