In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves. This is a helpful pointer for our everyday presence-practice. Can you catch yourself angrily defending your point of view or attacking the other person's? There's the ego.

You are the source of all purity and impurity. No one purifies another.

The Beautiful chariots of kings wear out, This body too undergoes decay. But the Dhamma of the good does not decay: So the good proclaim along with the good.

Love in the past is only a memory. Love in the future is only a fantasy. True love lives in the here and now.

The good renounce everything. The pure don't babble about sensual desires. Whether touched by pleasure or pain, the wise show no change of temper.

The heavens and the earth may be captured by the mind's eye.

Nothing ever exists entirely alone; everything is in relation to everythiong else.