Even loss and betrayal can bring us awakening.

Look upon him who shows you your faults as a revealer of treasure: seek his company who checks and chides you, the sage who is wise in reproof: it fares well and not ill with him who seeks such company.

You must take action yourself, for Buddhas only teach the way.

Like the mother of the world, touch each being as your beloved child.

Whatever a person frequently thinks and reflects on, that will become the inclination of their mind.

If a man who has committed many a misdemeanor does not repent and cleanse his heart of the evil, retribution will come upon his person as sure as the streams run into the ocean which becomes ever deeper and wider. If a man who has committed a misdemeanor come to the knowledge of it, reform himself, and practise goodness, the force of retribution will gradually exhaust itself as a disease gradually loses its baneful influence when the patient perspires.

Letting go of our suffering is the hardest work we will ever do.