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.

One is not a great one because one defeats or harms other living beings. One is so called because one refrains from defeating or harming other living beings.

Chase after money and security and your heart will never unclench.

This is the entire spiritual life, Ananda, that is, good friendship, good companionship, good comradeship. When a monk has a good friend, a good companion, a good comrade, it is to be expected that he will develop and cultivate the Noble Eightfold Path.

If a man going down into a river, swollen and swiftly flowing, is carried away by the current - how can he help others across?

Every experience, no matter how bad it seems, holds within a blessing of some kind. The goal is to find it.

It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.