Offensive acts come back upon the evil doer, like dust that is thrown against the wind.

Why cling to the pain and the wrongs of yesterday? Why hold on to the very things that keep you from hope and love.

If the selflessness of phenomena is analyzed and if this analysis is cultivated, it causes the effect of attaining nirvana. through no other cause does one come to peace.

Do not pursue the past. Do not lose yourself in the future. The past no longer is. The future has not yet come. Looking deeply at life as it is. In the very here and now, the practitioner dwells in stability and freedom. We must be diligent today. To wait until tomorrow is too late. Death comes unexpectedly. How can we bargain with it? The sage calls a person who knows how to dwell in mindfulness night and day, 'one who knows the better way to live alone.'

Know what you do not know.

Whoever doesn't flare up at someone who's angry wins a battle hard to win.

Follow then the shining ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving, for they know how to work and forbear.