The self of which you speak, whether it is the great self or the small self, is only a concept that does not correspond to any reality.

A victor only breeds hatred, while a defeated man lives in misery, but a man at peace within lives happily, abandoning up ideas of victory and defeat.

Those which arise dependently are free of inherent existence.

Love lasts when the relationship comes first

One should refrain from intoxicating drinks and drugs.

Mind precedes all phenomena, mind matters most, everything is mind-made. If with an impure mind, you speak or act, then suffering follows you as the cartwheel follows the foot of the draft animal. If with a pure mind, you speak or act, then happiness follows you as a shadow that never departs

The greatest action is not conforming with the worlds ways.