How easy it is to see your brother's faults, How hard it is to face your own.

Yet the Teaching is simple. Do what is right. Be pure. At the end of the way is freedom.

"Existence is sorrow." Understand, and go beyond sorrow. This is the way of brightness.

And he who has considered all the contrasts on this earth, and is no more disturbed by anything whatever in the world, the Peaceful One, freed from rage, from sorrow, and from longing, he has passed beyond birth and decay.

In the end it is nothing other than the loving kindness with which the woman cares for her child that makes the difference. Her concern concentrates on one thing just like the Buddhist practice of concentration. She thinks of nothing but her child, which is similar to Buddhist compassion. That must be why, although she created no other causes to bring about it, she was reborn in the Brahma heaven.

Pity arises when we are sorry for someone.Compassion is when we understand and help wisely.

Wherever we go, wherever we remain, the results of our actions follow us.