Which do you think is more my friend, the water in the four great oceans or the tears that you have shed on this long way of taking birth again and again?

There have been many Buddhas before me and will be many Buddhas in the future.

You too shall pass away. Knowing this, how can you quarrel?

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

Buddha is in our hearts. Buddha is in our mouths. Buddha is in our daily lives.

Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it

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.