Everything - a horse, a vine - is created for some duty... For what task, then, were you yourself created?

Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be, become one yourself!

Know the joy of life by piling good deed on good deed until no rift or cranny appears between them.

Keep constantly in mind in how many things you yourself have witnessed changes already. The universe is change, life is understanding.

Your time has a limit set to it. Use it, then, to advance your enlightenment; or it will be gone, and never in your power again.

Treat with utmost respect your power of forming opinions, for this power alone guards you against making assumptions that are contrary to nature and judgments that overthrow the rule of reason.

Look at everything that exists, and observe that it is already in dissolution and in change, and as it were putrefaction or dispersion, or that everything is so constituted by nature as to die.