Be a lamp unto yourselves! Work out your liberation with diligence! Fill your mind with compassion!

"Existence is sorrow." Understand, and go beyond sorrow. This is the way of brightness.

All that we are is the result of what we have thought; it is founded on our thoughts; it is made up of our thoughts. A man's life is the direct result of his thoughts... We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world.

Thousands upon thousands of lights is inferior to a light of heart.

Suffering is wishing things were other than they are.

If there is no other world and there is no fruit and ripening of actions well done or ill done, then here and now in this life I shall be free from hostility, affliction, and anxiety, and I shall live happily.

I am always at the beginning.