There is a way to be purified, to overcome sorrows and grief, to release suffering, to secure the right path to realize nirvana. This is to be mindful.

The mind is the source of happiness and unhappiness by what it chooses to compare the experience with. If it chooses to compare it to something worse then it will create happiness, gratitude and pride but if it chooses to compare it to something better then it will create unhappiness, bitterness and envy.

To live a single day and hear a good teaching is better than to live a hundred years without knowing such teaching.

When a man makes utensils out of a metal which has been thoroughly cleansed of dross, the utensils will be excellent. You monks, who wish to follow the Way, make your own hearts clean from the dirt of evil passion, and your conduct will be unimpeachable.

And so, with a boundless heart should one cherish all living beings.

Dispassion is the best of mental states. . . .

Our theories of the eternal are as valuable as are those which a chick which has not broken its way through its shell might form of the outside world.