Before you've seen it, and when you first see it, it is the greatest thing; afterwards, it is ordinary.

Do not believe anything because it is said by an authority, or if it is said to come from angels, or from Gods, or from an inspired source. Believe it only if you have explored it in your own heart and mind and body and found it to be true. Work out your own path, through diligence.

It is easy to see the faults of others... it is hard to see our own.

The end of desire is the end of sorrow.

Drop by drop is the water pot filled. Likewise, the wise man, gathering it little by little, fills himself with good.

The person who masters himself through self-control and discipline is truly undefeatable.

Samsara-the Wheel of Existence, literally, the "Perpetual Wandering"-is the name by which is designated the sea of life ever restlessly heaving up and down, the symbol of this continuous process of ever again and again being born, growing old, suffering, and dying. (It) is constantly changing from moment to moment, (as lives) follow continuously one upon the other through inconceivable periods of time. Of this Samsara, a single lifetime constitutes only a vanishingly tiny fraction.