Every experience, no matter how bad it seems, holds within a blessing of some kind. The goal is to find it.

To awaken, sit calmly, letting each breath clear your mind and open your heart.

He who has renounced all violence towards all living beings, weak or strong, who neither kills nor causes others to kill - him I do call a holy man.

If with an impure mind a person speaks or acts suffering follows him like the wheel that follows the foot of the ox.

He who is grateful doesn't suffer.

Within this moment, the only moment that exists, the past, present and future are contained.

When a monk is an arahant, with his fermentations ended - one who has reached fulfillment, done the task, laid down the burden, attained the true goal, totally destroyed the fetter of becoming, and is released through right gnosis - the thought doesn't occur to him that 'There is someone better than me,' or 'There is someone equal to me,' or 'There is someone worse than me.'