Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.

The less you have, the less you have to worry about.

Free from passion and desire, you have stripped the thorns from the stem.

When we free ourselves of desire, we will know serenity and freedom.

The gift of the Truth beats all other gifts. The flavour of the Truth beats all other tastes. The joy of the Truth beats all other joys, and the cessation of desire conquers all suffering

A person is ruined by taking the measure of other persons.

Know all things to be like this: A mirage, a cloud castle, A dream, an apparition, Without essence, but with qualities that can be seen. Know all things to be like this: As the moon in a bright sky In some clear lake reflected, Though to that lake the moon has never moved. Know all things to be like this: As an echo that derives From music, sounds, and weeping, Yet in that echo is no melody. Know all things to be like this: As a magician makes illusions Of horses, oxen, carts and other things, Nothing is as it appears.