There is no more self-contradictory concept than that of idle thoughts. What gives rise to the perception of a whole world can hardly be called idle. Every thought we have either contributes to truth or to illusion.

From craving is born grief, from craving is born fear. For one freed from craving there's no grief- so how fear?

Better than a long speech is a single quietening word.

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?

Every experience, no matter how bad it seems, holds within a blessing of some kind. The goal is to find it.

But if you do not find an intelligent companion, a wise and well-behaved person going the same way as yourself, then go on your way alone, like a king abandoning a conquered kingdom, or like a great elephant in the deep forest.

Full of love for all things in the world, practicing virtue, in order to benefit others, this man alone is happy.