To be selfish, greedy and unwilling to help the needy gives rise to future starvation and clothlessness.

Happiness or sorrow- whatever befalls you, walk on untouched, unattached.

As a water bead on a lotus leaf, as water on a red lily, does not adhere, so the sage does not adhere to the seen, the heard, or the sensed.

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles.

If a person does not harm any living being...and does not kill or cause others to kill - that person is a true spiritual practitioner

There are three ways to correct our faults:We can change through behavior We can change through understanding We can change heart

Every experience, no matter how bad it seems, holds within a blessing of some kind. The goal is to find it.