Ceasing to do evil, Cultivating the good, Purifying the heart: This is the teaching of the Buddhas.

A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.

For one who has abandoned craving and is free from grasping, who knows languages and their interpretations, the combinations of the letters and their order before and after, this is the final birth. The one is called the Great Being, the Great Sage.

Whoever sees me sees the teaching, and whoever sees the teaching sees me.

Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.

Cold silence has a tendency to atrophy any sense of compassion between supposed lovers, between supposed brothers.