Being generous and kindly in speech, doing a good turn for others, and treating all alike. One like this will be praised.

You yourself must earnestly practice, the enlightened ones only proclaim the path.

No one outside ourselves can rule us inwardly. When we know this, we become free.

And so, with a boundless heart should one cherish all living beings.

It is impossible for a man who is bogged to extricate another who is bogged.

Goodwill toward all beings is the true religion; cherish in your hearts boundless goodwill to all that lives.

Whatever a monk keeps pursuing with his thinking and pondering, that becomes the inclination of his awareness.