Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute. So that view is very helpful to maintain a peace of mind because the main destroyer of a peaceful mind is anger.

If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly our whole life would change.

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.

All that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts and made up of our thoughts. If a man speak or act with an evil thought, suffering follows him as the wheel follows the hoof of the beast that draws the wagon.... If a man speak or act with a good thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him.

Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.

The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.