Inner freedom is not guided by our efforts; it comes from seeing what is true.

Which do you think is more my friend, the water in the four great oceans or the tears that you have shed on this long way of taking birth again and again?

By defilement of mind, beings are defiled; by purification of mind, beings are purified.

To know and not to use is not yet to know!

To live a single day and hear a good teaching is better than to live a hundred years without knowing such teaching.

If beings knew, as I know, the results of giving & sharing, they would not eat without having given.

It is more important to prevent animal suffering, rather than sit to contemplate the evils of the universe praying in the company of priests.