Be the witness of your thoughts.

I knew that most people never see this reality because they attach to the material aspect of the world. Illusions of self and other fill their vision. I also realized there are those with little dust limiting their vision.

We living beings, right down to crickets, ants, mosquitoes , and flies, all possess life that is without beginning or end.

His success may be great, but be it ever so great the wheel of fortune may turn again and bring him down into the dust.

And he who has considered all the contrasts on this earth, and is no more disturbed by anything whatever in the world, the Peaceful One, freed from rage, from sorrow, and from longing, he has passed beyond birth and decay.

Go forth in every direction- for the happiness, the harmony, the welfare of the many. Offer your heart, the seeds of understanding, like a lamp overturned and re-lit, illuminating the darkness.

Focusnot on the rudeness of others,not on what they've done or left undone,but on what you have done and have not doneyourself.