Just as a tree, though cut down, can grow again and again if its roots are undamaged and strong, in the same way if the roots of craving are not wholly uprooted sorrows will come again and again

When you move your focus from competition to contribution life becomes a celebration. Never try to defeat people, just win their hearts.

A good horse runs with seeing just the shadow of the whip.

When you realize how perfect [or at least better than it could be] everything is, you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky.

Everything is changeable, everything appears and disappears; there is no blissful peace until one passes beyond the agony of life and death.

O seeker! Rely on nothing until you want nothing.

There is, Oh Monks, a not-born, a not-become, a not-made, a not-compounded. Monks, if that unborn, not-become, not-made, not-compounded were not, there would be no escape from this here that is born, become, made and compounded.