The mind that perceives the limitation is the limitation.

Be a lamp to yourself. Be your own confidence. Hold on to the truth within yourself as to the only truth.

If a man going down into a river, swollen and swiftly flowing, is carried away by the current - how can he help others across?

You can only lose what you cling to.

Comparing oneself to others in such terms as "Just as I am so are they, just as they are so am I," he should neither kill nor cause others to kill.

A virtuous man or woman who is determined to develop the Supreme Enlightened Mind, should thus develop it: I have to lead all living beings to put a stop to (reincarnation) and escape (suffering), and when they have been so led, not one of them in fact stops (reincarnating) or escapes suffering. Why? Because, if a Bodhisattva believes in the notion of an ego, a personality, or a living being, he is not a true Bodhisattva.

There are three ways to correct our faults:We can change through behavior We can change through understanding We can change heart