In this world Hate never yet dispelled hate. Only love dispels hate. This is the law, Ancient and inexhaustible.

From the passions arise worry, and from worry arises fear. Away with the passions, and no fear, no worry.

Drop by drop is the water pot filled. Likewise, the wise man, gathering it little by little, fills himself with good.

The ignorant man is an ox. He grows in size, not in wisdom.

Let a man neither give himself over to pleasures ... nor yet let him give himself over to self-mortification ... To the exclusion of both these extremes, the Truth-Finder has discovered a middle course.

Even loss and betrayal can bring us awakening.

The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.