True and lasting inner peace can never be found in external things. It can only be found within in. And then, once we find and nurture it with ourselves, it radiates outward.

A good horse runs with seeing just the shadow of the whip.

Both formerly and now, it is only suffering that I describe, and the cessation of suffering.

Surely if living creatures saw the results of all their evil deeds, they would turn away from them in disgust. But selfhood blinds them, and they cling to their obnoxious desires. They crave pleasure for themselves and they cause pain to others; when death destroys their individuality, they find no peace; their thirst for existence abides and their selfhood reappears in new births. Thus they continue to move in the coil and can find no escape from the hell of their own making.

All tremble at violence; all fear death. Putting oneself in the place of another, one should not kill nor cause another to kill.

The mind is pure and luminous by nature. It is defiled only by adventitious thoughts and emotions

Those which arise dependently are free of inherent existence.