In the same way that rain breaks into a house with a bad roof, desire breaks into the mind that has not been practising meditation.

Being generous and kindly in speech, doing a good turn for others, and treating all alike. One like this will be praised.

Believe, meditate, see. Be harmless, be blameless. Awake to the law. And from all sorrows free yourself.

Drop by drop is the water pot filled. Likewise, the wise man, gathering it little by little, fills himself with good.

There are two obstacles to enlightenment: 1. Thinking you know. 2 Thinking you don't know.

The mind is the source of happiness and unhappiness by what it chooses to compare the experience with. If it chooses to compare it to something worse then it will create happiness, gratitude and pride but if it chooses to compare it to something better then it will create unhappiness, bitterness and envy.

Attachment leads to suffering.