Look not to the faults of others, nor to their omissions and commissions. But rather look to your own acts, to what you have done and left undone.

The world, indeed, is like a dream and the treasures of the world are an alluring mirage! Like the apparent distances in a picture, things have no reality in themselves, but they are like heat haze.

A person creates what they defend against.

A wrong action may not bring its reaction at once, even as fresh milk turns not sour at once: like a smouldering fire concealed under ashes it consumes the wrongdoer, the fool.

Purity or impurity depends on oneself, no one can purify another.

Pity arises when we are sorry for someone.Compassion is when we understand and help wisely.

From a withered tree, a flower blooms