Though through all his life a fool associates with a wise man, he yet understands not the Dharma, as the spoon, the flavor of soup.

The fool who thinks he is wise is just a fool. The fool who knows he is a fool is wise indeed.

Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have.

The right time to show your good character is when you are pestered by someone weaker than you.

Everything is based on mind, is led by mind, is fashioned by mind. If you speak and act with a pure mind, happiness will follow you, as a shadow clings to a form.

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

This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.