Life at home is cramped and dirty, it is difficult to live a spiritual life completely, perfect and pure in all its parts while cabinned.

When ignorant people see someone who is dead, they are disgusted and horrified, even thought they too will be dead some day. I thought to myself: I don't want to be like the ignorant people. After then, I couldn't feel the usual intoxication with life anymore.

How easy it is to see your brother's faults, How hard it is to face your own. You winnow his in the wind like chaff, But yours you hide, Like a cheat covering up an unlucky throw. Dwelling on your brother's faults Multiplies your own. You are far from the end of your journey. The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart. See how you love.

You are the source of all purity and impurity. No one purifies another.

We must be diligent today. To wait until tomorrow is too late. Death comes unexpectedly. How can we bargain with it?

To him in whom love dwells, the whole world is but one family.

The fool is his own enemy. Seeking wealth, he destroys himself. Seek rather the other shore.