Death carries off a man busy picking flowers with an besotted mind, like a great flood does a sleeping village.

Awakening is natural,delusion is not

Should a person do good, let him do it again and again. Let him find pleasure therein, for blissful is the accumulation of good.

Wear your ego like a loose fitting garment.

Monks, one thing, if practiced and made much of, conduces to great thrill, great profit, great security after the toil, to mindfulness and self-possession, to the winning of knowledge and insight, to pleasant living in this very life, to the realization of the fruit of release by knowledge. What is that one thing: It is mindfulness centered on the body.

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

All rising to great places is by a winding stair.