Pain is the outcome of sin.
Through zeal, knowledge is gotten; through lack of zeal, knowledge is lost.
The wise man makes an island of himself that no flood can overwhelm.
Do not let pleasure distract you from meditation, from the way. Free yourself from pleasure and pain.
Yet the Teaching is simple. Do what is right. Be pure. At the end of the way is freedom.
The kingdom of heaven is closer than the brow above the eye but mankind does not see it.