Crying with the wise is better than laughing with the fool.

Sometime, somewhere you take something to be the truth. But if you cling to it too strongly, then even when the truth comes in person and knocks on your door, you will not open it.

It is your mind that creates the world.

This is the entire spiritual life, Ananda, that is, good friendship, good companionship, good comradeship. When a monk has a good friend, a good companion, a good comrade, it is to be expected that he will develop and cultivate the Noble Eightfold Path.

The world is continuous flux and is impermanent.

The greatest victory is the one over oneself.

Maintain a state of balance between physical acts and inner serenity,like a lute whose strings are finely tuned.