Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again.

If you are tossed about by doubts, full of strong thoughtless passions, and yearning only for that which is detrimental, your thirst will grow stronger and stronger, unquenched, and your pain will grow with your defilements.

Awake. Be the witness of your thoughts. You are what observes, not what you observe.

The eating of meat extinguishes the seed of Great Kindness.

The kingdom of heaven is closer than the brow above the eye but mankind does not see it.

To do a little good is more than to accomplish great conquests.

If for just the time of a finger-snap a monk produces a thought of loving-kindness, develops it, gives attention to it, such a one is rightly called a monk. Not in vain does he meditate. He acts in accordance with the master's teaching, he follows his advice. How much more so if he cultivates it.