Being generous, just helping one's relatives and being blameless in one's actions; this is the best good luck.

Samsara-the Wheel of Existence, literally, the "Perpetual Wandering"-is the name by which is designated the sea of life ever restlessly heaving up and down, the symbol of this continuous process of ever again and again being born, growing old, suffering, and dying. (It) is constantly changing from moment to moment, (as lives) follow continuously one upon the other through inconceivable periods of time. Of this Samsara, a single lifetime constitutes only a vanishingly tiny fraction.

Do not judge yourself harshly. Without mercy for ourselves we cannot love the world.

Attention leads to immortality. Carelessness leads to death. Those who pay attention will not die, while the careless are as good as dead already.

When we free ourselves of desire, we will know serenity and freedom.

Irrigators channel waters; fletchers straighten arrows; carpenters bend wood; the wise master themselves.

There is no meditation without wisdom, and there is no wisdom without meditation. When a man has both meditation and wisdom, he is indeed close to nirvana.