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.

If a man can control his body and mind and thereby refrains from eating animal flesh and wearing animal products, I say he will really be liberated.

There is pleasure And there is bliss. Forgo the first to possess the second. If you are happy At the expense of another man's happiness, You are forever bound.

To utter pleasant words without practicing them, is like a fine flower without fragrance.

You, as much as anyone in the universe, deserve your love and respect.

Attachment leads to suffering.

By oneself the evil is done, and it is oneself who suffers: by oneself the evil is not done, and by one's Self one becomes pure.