Just as the great ocean has one taste, the taste of salt, so also this teaching and discipline has one taste, the taste of liberation.

He who harms living beings is, for that reason, not an ariya (a Noble One); he who does not harm any living being is called an ariya.

Let the wise guard their thoughts, which are difficult to perceive, extremely subtle, and wander at will. Thought which is well guarded is the bearer of happiness.

Full of love for all things in the world, practicing virtue, in order to benefit others, this man alone is happy.

A raft needed to cross the river is discarded when the other shore is reached, not carried about on one's head.

You are far from the end of your journey. The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart. See how you love.

In protecting oneself, others are protected; In protecting others, oneself is protected.