Easy to do are things that are bad and harmful to oneself. But exceedingly difficult to do are things that are good and beneficial.

In the same way that rain breaks into a house with a bad roof, desire breaks into the mind that has not been practising meditation.

Hatred is never ended by hatred but by love.

Monks, when ignorance is abandoned, and knowledge arises in the monk, with the ending of ignorance and the arising of knowledge he clings neither to sense-pleasures, nor does he cling to views, nor to precepts and vows, nor to a Self-doctrine. Not clinking, he is not disturbed; not disturbed, he attains individually nibbana.

Whoever has done harmful actions but later covers them up with good is like the moon which, freed from clouds, lights up the world.

Watering the flowers and the trees, whispering to them, talking to them. Then, they will grow to be more bright and luxuriant.

Only within our body, with its heart and mind, can bondage and suffering be found, and only here can we find true liberation.