If you let cloudy water settle, it will become clear. If you let your upset mind settle, your course will also become clear.

Let us live in joy, never falling sick like those who hate us. Let us live in freedom, without hatred even among those who hate.

A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again; but if he is peaceful, loving and fearless then he is in truth called wise.

Don't pray for lighter burdens, but for stronger backs.

The darkest night is ignorance.

There is no fire like passion. There are no chains like hate. Illusion is a net, Desire is a rushing river.

Monks, one thing, if practiced and made much of, conduces to great thrill, great profit, great security after the toil, to mindfulness and self-possession, to the winning of knowledge and insight, to pleasant living in this very life, to the realization of the fruit of release by knowledge. What is that one thing: It is mindfulness centered on the body.