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

Pain in life is inevitable but suffering is not.

Do not learn how to react. Learn how to respond.

Come, live with the doors of the senses guarded, diligent and mindful, vigilant and mindful, with the ways of the mind well watched, possessed of a mind that is awake and observing.

Wakefulness is the way to life. The fool sleeps As if he were already dead, But the master is awake And he lives forever.

We are what we think, and all that we are rises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world. Speak and act with a pure mind and happiness will follow.

If people become accustomed to lying, they will unconsciously commit every possible wrong deed. Before they can act wickedly, they must lie and once they begin to lie they will act wickedly without concern.