By three things the wise person may be known. What three? He sees a shortcoming as it is. When he sees it, he tries to correct it. And when another acknowledges a shortcoming, the wise one forgives it as he should.

Live joyfully, without desire.

Drink deeply. Live in serenity and joy.

Just as a tree, though cut down, can grow again and again if its roots are undamaged and strong, in the same way if the roots of craving are not wholly uprooted sorrows will come again and again

We are the same as plants, as trees, as other people, as the rain that falls. We consist of that which is around us, we are the same as everything.

To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

Both formerly and now, it is only suffering that I describe, and the cessation of suffering.