Goodwill toward all beings is the true religion; cherish in your hearts boundless goodwill to all that lives.

Thousands upon thousands of lights is inferior to a light of heart.

Speak only the speech that neither torments self nor does harm to others. That speech is truly well spoken.

If you want to know the past, look at your present. If you want to know the future, look at your present.

It is the fool who is haunted by fears, dread of dangers, oppression of mind, not the wise man.

Thus all things are subject to death, sorrow and suffering. I became aware that I too was of the same nature, the nature of beginning and end. What if I searched for that which underlies all creation, that which is nirvana, the perfect freedom from unconditioned existence?

Those who walk in the Way should avoid sensualism as those who carry hay would avoid coming near the fire.