Karma grows from our hearts. Karma terminates from our hearts.

Looking deeply at life as it is in this very moment, the meditator dwells in stability and freedom.

What's done to the children is done to society.

There are those who discover they can leave behind destructive reactions and become patient as the earth, unmoved by fires of anger or fear, unshaken as a pillar, unperturbed as a clear and quiet pool.

Buddha was speaking in a village square one day, when one of the inhabitants started to abuse him. Buddha paused and said to the man, "If you offer me a piece of paper and I refuse to accept it, what happens to the paper?" "Why, it stays with me, of course," the villager replied. Buddha smiled gently, "And that is exactly what I am doing with your abuse," he said. "I am not accepting it, therefore it stays with you."

There have been many Buddhas before me and will be many Buddhas in the future.

To cease from evil, to do good, and to purify the mind yourself, this is the teaching of all the Buddhas.