If you find no one to support you on the spiritual path, walk alone. There is no companionship with the immature.

Peace comes from within; do not try to seek it without.

Whatever an enemy might do to an enemy, or a foe to a foe, the ill-directed mind can do to you even worse.

When your mind is set in meditative equipoise, you can see reality exactly as it is

To be selfish, greedy and unwilling to help the needy gives rise to future starvation and clothlessness.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned. A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another. If these minds love one another the home will be as beautiful as a flower garden. But if these minds get out of harmony with one another it is like a storm that plays havoc with the garden.