Be a lamp to yourself. Be your own confidence. Hold on to the truth within yourself as to the only truth.

Go forth in every direction- for the happiness, the harmony, the welfare of the many. Offer your heart, the seeds of understanding, like a lamp overturned and re-lit, illuminating the darkness.

Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.

Beware of the anger of the mouth. Master your words. Let them serve truth.

Love yourself and be awake- Today, tomorrow, always. First establish yourself in the way, Then teach others, And so defeat sorrow. To straighten the crooked You must first do a harder thing- Straighten yourself. You are your only master. Who else? Subdue yourself, And discover your master.

Cut out the love of self, like an autumn lotus with thy hand!

Those who speak much are blamed, those who speak little are blamed. In this world there are none who are not blamed. Try not to blame.