What is this world condition? Body is the world condition. And with body and form goes feeling, perception, consciousness, and all the activities throughout the world. The arising of form and the ceasing of form-everything that has been heard, sensed, and known, sought after and reached by the mind-all this is the embodied world, to be penetrated and realized.

Reverence, humility, contentment, gratitude and hearing the good Dhamma, this is the best good luck.

If I had even a slight awareness, and practiced the Great Way, what I would fear would be deviating from it.

All rising to great places is by a winding stair.

Your mind is a powerful thing. When you filter it with positive thoughts, your life will start to change.

The world is afflicted by death and decay. But the wise do not grieve, having realized the nature of the world.

Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair.