To feel overflowing love and almost unbearable compassion for all living creatures is the best way to fulfil the wishes of all the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas. Even if for the moment you cannot actually help a sentient being in an external way, meditate on love and compassion constantly over the months and years until compassion is knit inseparably into the very fabric of your mind.

...with the power of compassion there is nothing that cannot be accomplished.

To meet someone who really hurts you is to meet a rare and precious treasure. Hold that person in high esteem, and make full use of the opportunity to eradicate your defects and make progress on the path. If you cannot yet feel love and compassion for those who treat you badly, it is a sign that your mind has not been fully transformed and that you need to keep working on it with increased application.

Day by day, be content with whatever you have and satisfied with whatever happens. Everything else will then fall naturally into place.

Once you overcome the hatred within your mind, you will discover that in the world outside, there is no longer any such thing as even a single enemy.

It is our mind, and that alone, that chains us or sets us free.

Life is fragile, like the dew hanging delicately on the grass, crystal drops that will be carried away on the first morning breeze.