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.

For those who are ready the door to the deathless state is open. If you have ears give up the conditions that bind you and enter in.

The calmed say that what is well-spoken is best; second, that one should say what is right, not unrighteous; third, what's pleasing, not displeasing; fourth, what is true, not false.

The person who masters himself through self-control and discipline is truly undefeatable.

When action comes out of nothing it creates no karma.

He who experiences the unity of life sees his own self in all beings.

A man may conquer a million men in battle but one who conquers himself is, indeed, the greatest of conquerors.