Noble friends and companions are the whole of the holy life.

All phenomena link together in a mutually conditioning network.

If there is no other world and there is no fruit and ripening of actions well done or ill done, then here and now in this life I shall be free from hostility, affliction, and anxiety, and I shall live happily.

Being able to make friends and keep them, welcoming others and sharing with them, a guide, philosopher and friend. One like this will be praised.

Be a light unto yourself.

One is not a great one because one defeats or harms other living beings. One is so called because one refrains from defeating or harming other living beings.

He whose longing has been aroused for the indescribable, whose mind has been quickened by it, and whose thought is not attached to sensuality is truly called one who is bound upstream.