It is because I perceive the danger in the practice of mystic wonders, that I loath, abhor, and am ashamed thereof.

Purity or impurity depends on oneself, no one can purify another.

All beings tremble before violence. All love life. All fear death. See yourself in others. Then whom can you hurt? What harm can you do?

Better than a thousand hollow words Is one word that brings peace. Better than a thousand hollow verses Is one verse that brings peace.

It is wrong to think that misfortunes come from the east or from the west; they originate within one's own mind.

What you think you become.

For those struggling in midstream, in great fear of the flood, of growing old and of dying for all those I say, an island exists where there is no place for impediments, no place for clinging: the island of no going beyond. I call it nirvana, the complete destruction of old age and dying.