Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time. Hatred ceases through love. This is an unalterable law.

Do not pursue the past. Do not lose yourself in the future. The past no longer is. The future has not yet come. Looking deeply at life as it is. In the very here and now, the practitioner dwells in stability and freedom. We must be diligent today. To wait until tomorrow is too late. Death comes unexpectedly. How can we bargain with it? The sage calls a person who knows how to dwell in mindfulness night and day, 'one who knows the better way to live alone.'

The past is already gone, the future is not yet here. There's only one moment for you to live, and that is the present moment

Being generous and kindly in speech, doing a good turn for others, and treating all alike. One like this will be praised.

And more importantly - what we have chosen to do

At the bottom of things, most people want to be understood and appreciated.

Whatever a monk keeps pursuing with his thinking and pondering, that becomes the inclination of his awareness.