As the bee collects nectar and departs without injuring the flower, or its color or fragrance, so let the sage dwell on earth.

Having abandoned the taking of life, refraining from killing, we dwell without violence, with the knife laid down, scrupulous, full of mercy, trembling with compassion for all sentient beings.

Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts. Develop the mind of equilibrium. You will always be getting praise and blame, but do not let either affect the poise of the mind: follow the calmness, the absence of pride.

In our interactions with others, gentleness, kindness, respectare the source of harmony

Do not vainly lament, but do wonder at the rule of transiency and learn from it the emptiness of human life. Do not cherish to unworthy desire that the changeable might become unchanging.

Do not look at the faults of what others have done or not done; observe what you yourself have done or not done.

If a man's mind becomes pure, his surroundings will also become pure.