How deeply did you learn to let go?

Meat is not agreeable to the wise: it has a nauseating odor, it causes a bad reputation, it is food for the carnivorous; I say this, Mahamati, it is not to be eaten.

All human unhappiness comes from not facing reality squarely, exactly as it is.

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

Watch the thought and its ways with care, and let it spring from love born out of concern for all beings.

Thoughtfulness is the way to deathlessness, thoughtlessness the way to death. The thoughtful do not die: the thoughtless are as if dead already.

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