Happiness follows sorrow, sorrow follows happiness, but when one no longer discriminates happiness and sorrow, a good deal and a bad deed, one is able to realize freedom.

Let the disciple cultivate love without measure towards all beings. Let him cultivate towards the whole world, above, below, around, a heart of love unstinted....For in all the world this state of heart is best.

Teach you? I cannot teach you. Go; experience for yourself

Of all the worldly passions, lust is the most intense. All other worldly passions seem to follow in its train.

As the bee collects nectar and departs without injuring the flower, or its color or fragrance, so let the sage dwell on earth.

He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.

Truth is always truth, untruth is always untruth. This is what matters, this is right desire.