Those who are pure in heart and single in purpose are able to understand the most supreme Way. It is like polishing a mirror, which becomes bright when the dust is removed. Remove your passions, and have no hankering.

Pain in life is inevitable but suffering is not.

If we destroy something around us we destroy ourselves. If we cheat another, we cheat ourselves.

Make an island of yourself, make yourself your refuge; there is no other refuge. Make truth your island, make truth your refuge; there is no other refuge.

Like a fine flower, beautiful to look at but without scent, fine words are fruitless in a man who does not act in accordance with them.

Anyone who is not working toward the truth is missing the whole point of living.

A jug fills drop by drop.