Life is easy For the man who is without shame, Impudent as a crow, A vicious gossip, Vain, meddlesome, dissolute. But life is hard For the man who quietly undertakes The way of perfection, With purity, detachment and vigor. He sees light.

In exactly the same way, ... scatter your body, your feeling, your perception, your predispositions, your discriminative consciousness, break them up, knock them down, cease to play with them, apply yourself to the destruction of craving for them. Verily, ... the extinction of craving is Nirvana.

Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.

The easiest beneficence is a smile. The simplest release is to have a vegetarian meal.

Friendship is the only cure for hatred, the only guarantee of peace.

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

The man who foolishly does me wrong, I will return to him the protection of my most ungrudging love; and the more evil comes from him, the more good shall go from me.