A person is not learned nor wise because he talks much; the person who is patient, free from hatred and fear, that person is called learned and wise.

Happiness follows sorrow, sorrow follows happiness, but when one no longer discriminates happiness and sorrow, a good deal and a bad deed, one is able to realize freedom.

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love.

Do not close your eyes before suffering. Find ways to be with those who are suffering by all means, Including personal contact and visits, images, sound. By such means, awaken yourself and others to the reality of suffering in the world.

If I had even a slight awareness, and practiced the Great Way, what I would fear would be deviating from it.

Few among men are they who cross to the further shore. The others merely run up and down the bank on this side.

When phenomena are individually analyzed as selfless, and what has been analyzed is meditated upon, that is the cause for attaining the fruit, nirvana. One does not go to peace through any other cause