It is within this fathoms-long carcass, with its mind and its notions, that I declare there is the world, the origin of the world, the cessation of the world and the path leading to the cessation of the world.

The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.

If a man's mind becomes pure, his surroundings will also become pure.

‎You only lose that which you cling to.

Let no person think lightly of good, saying in his or her heart, "it will not benefit me." As by the falling of raindrops a jar of water is filled, so the wise person becomes full of good, even though he or she collects it little by little.

We are what we think.

The wise have mastered body, word, and mind. They are the true masters.