Hatred does not cease in this world by hating, but by not hating; this is an eternal truth.

Monks, one thing, if practiced and made much of, conduces to great thrill, great profit, great security after the toil, to mindfulness and self-possession, to the winning of knowledge and insight, to pleasant living in this very life, to the realization of the fruit of release by knowledge. What is that one thing: It is mindfulness centered on the body.

Do not be thoughtless, always be mindful, watch your thoughts! Draw yourself out of the path of evil, like an elephant sunk in mud.

Thought-habits can harden into character. So watch your thoughts.

Whoever sees me sees the teaching, and whoever sees the teaching sees me.

You too shall pass away. Knowing this, how can you quarrel?

When one, abandoning greed, feels no greed for what would merit greed, greed gets shed from him - like a drop of water from a lotus leaf.