Love yourself and be awake- Today, tomorrow, always. First establish yourself in the way, Then teach others, And so defeat sorrow. To straighten the crooked You must first do a harder thing- Straighten yourself. You are your only master. Who else? Subdue yourself, And discover your master.
Gautama BuddhaAs from a large heap of flowers many garlands and wreaths are made, so by a mortal in this life there is much good work to be done.
Gautama BuddhaThere are two obstacles to enlightenment: 1. Thinking you know. 2 Thinking you don't know.
Gautama BuddhaJust as you have come to know, the false discrimination of yourself, apply this mentally to all phenomena
Gautama BuddhaWhen a man is stimulated by his own thoughts, full of desire and dwelling on what is attractive, his craving increases even more. He is making the fetter even stronger. But he who takes pleasure in stilling his thoughts, practising the contemplation of what is repulsive, and remaining recollected, now he will make an end of craving, he will snap the bonds of Mara. His aim is accomplished, he is without fear, rid of craving and without stain. He has removed the arrows of changing existence. This is his last body.
Gautama Buddha