When you run after your thoughts, you are like a dog chasing a stick: every time a stick is thrown, you run after it. Instead, be like a lion who, rather than chasing after the stick, turns to face the thrower. One only throws a stick at a lion once.

Strong and healthy, who thinks of sickness until it strikes like lightning? Preoccupied with the world, who thinks of death, until it arrives like thunder?

Do not entertain hopes for realization, but practice all your life.

One should see that all appearance is like mist and fog.

I need nothing. I seek nothing. I desire nothing.

He who knows that all things are his mind, That all with which he meets are friendly, Is ever joyful.

Accustomed long to contemplating love and compassion I have forgotten all difference between myself and others