Suffering is an illusion.

Sustaining a loving heart, even for a moment, makes one a spiritual being.

Whatever grounds there are for making merit productive of a future birth, all these do not equal a sixteenth part of the liberation of mind by loving-kindness. The liberation of mind by loving-kindness surpasses them and shines forth, bright and brilliant.

To live a single day and hear a good teaching is better than to live a hundred years without knowing such teaching.

As a single drop of water fills a bucket, so do small deeds of evil; as a single drop of water fills a bucket, so do small deeds of good.

Purity or impurity depends on oneself, no one can purify another.

Beings are owners of their action, heirs of their action.