He who causes suffering shall suffer. There is no escape.

Religion is a cow. It gives milk, but it also kicks.

Better is to speak unpleasant truth than to tell lies.

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.

If you don't disturb yourself, like a broken gong does not vibrate, then you have achieved nirvana. Irritability no longer exists for you.

On a long journey of human life, faith is the best of companions; it is the best refreshment on the journey; and it is the greatest property.

Those who have failed to work toward the truth have missed the purpose of living.