As a bee gathering nectar does not harm or disturb the color & fragrance of the flower; so do the wise move through the world.

Whatever is subject to origination is all subject to cessation.

This is the entire spiritual life, Ananda, that is, good friendship, good companionship, good comradeship. When a monk has a good friend, a good companion, a good comrade, it is to be expected that he will develop and cultivate the Noble Eightfold Path.

Do not be the judge of people; do not make assumptions about others. A person is destroyed by holding judgments about others.

You create what you defend against.

Just as the great oceans have but one taste, the taste of salt, so too there is but one taste fundamental to all true teachings of the way, and this is the taste of freedom.

When I was a young man, near the beginning of my life, I looked around with true mindfulness and saw that all things are subject to decay.