One who conquers himself is greater than another who conquers a thousand times a thousand on the battlefield.

One is not a great one because one defeats or harms other living beings. One is so called because one refrains from defeating or harming other living beings.

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

He who has renounced all violence towards all living beings, weak or strong, who neither kills nor causes others to kill - him I do call a holy man.

Learn this from the waters: in mountain clefts and chasms, loud gush the streamlets, but great rivers flow silently.

A kind man who makes good use of wealth is rightly said to possess a great treasure; but the miser who hoards up his riches will have no profit.

Please, try to eat a bit less meat, a bit more veggies from today. Let it become a habit gradually until not to eat meat anymore. Then, observe the changing of the body and spirit after eating veggies, fruits and grains.