Everything is extraordinarily clear. I see the whole landscape before me, I see my hands, my feet, my toes, and I smell the rich river mud. I feel a sense of tremendous strangeness and wonder at being alive. Wonder of wonders.

Do not learn how to react. Learn how to respond.

"All is passing". When one realises this, he sits loose to this world of sorrow : This is the way of purity.

Do not carry with you your mistakes. Do not carry your cares. Travel on alone. Like an elephant in the forest.

Know well what holds you back, and what moves you forward

With gentleness overcome anger. With generosity overcome meanness. With truth overcome deceit.

And he who lives a hundred years, idle and weak, a life of one day is better if a man has attained firm strength.