When wishes are few, the heart is happy. When craving ends, there is peace.

Hate never ends hate. Only love can.

Water surrounds the lotus flower, but does not wet its petals.

Thus shall ye think of all this fleeting world: As star at dawn, a bubble in a stream A flash of lightning in a summer cloud A flickering lamp, a phantom, and a dream

I do not fight with the world but the world fights with me.

If beings knew, as I know, the results of giving & sharing, they would not eat without having given.

May all beings everywhere plagued with sufferings of body and mind quickly be freed from their illnesses. May those frightened cease to be afraid, and may those bound be free. May the powerless find power, and may people think of befriending each other. May those who find themselves in trackless, fearful wilderness- the children, the aged, the unprotected- be guarded by beneficent celestials, and may they swiftly attain Buddhahood.