You yourself must strive. The Buddhas only point the way.

Your body is precious. It is our vehicle for awakening. Treat it with care.

As the fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts.

The recollected go forth to lives of renunciation. They take no pleasure in a fixed abode. Like wild swans abandoning a pool, they leave one resting place after another.

The world, indeed, is like a dream and the treasures of the world are an alluring mirage! Like the apparent distances in a picture, things have no reality in themselves, but they are like heat haze.

You, as much as anyone in the universe, deserve your love and respect.

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