Craving brings pain; craving brings fear. If you do not yield to craving, you will be free from pain and fear

Sometime, somewhere you take something to be the truth. But if you cling to it too strongly, then even when the truth comes in person and knocks on your door, you will not open it.

Follow the truth of the way. Reflect upon it. Make it your own. Live it. It will always sustain you.

Do not accept what you hear by report, do not accept tradition, do not accept a statement because it is found in our books, nor because it is in accord with your belief, nor because it is the saying of your teacher. Be lamps unto yourselves. Those who, either now or after I am dead, shall rely upon themselves only and not look for assistance to anyone besides themselves, it is they who shall reach the topmost height.

If one man kills a hundred men, and another man masters himself, the second man is the much greater warrior.

Our own worst enemy cannot harm us as much as our unwise thoughts. No one can help us as much as our own compassionate thoughts.

The secret of health for both mind and body is...live the present moment wisely and earnestly.