Maintain a state of balance between physical acts and inner serenity,like a lute whose strings are finely tuned.

Goodwill toward all beings is the true religion; cherish in your hearts boundless goodwill to all that lives.

One act of pure love in saving life is greater than spending the whole of one's time in religious offerings to the gods . . .

We must be diligent today. To wait until tomorrow is too late. Death comes unexpectedly. How can we bargain with it?

Look upon him who shows you your faults as a revealer of treasure: seek his company who checks and chides you, the sage who is wise in reproof: it fares well and not ill with him who seeks such company.

Everything is extraordinarily clear. I see the whole landscape before me, I see my hands, my feet, my toes, and I smell the rich river mud. I feel a sense of tremendous strangeness and wonder at being alive. Wonder of wonders.

You are the community now. Be a lamp for yourselves. Be your own refuge. Seek for no other. All things must pass. Strive on diligently. Don’t give up.