Only the person having firm conviction and iron volition can attain strength and energy. At no stage of karma does he ever hesitate.
Speak not harshly to anyone. Those thus addressed will retort. Painful, indeed, is vindictive speech. Blows in exchange may bruise you.
Not knowing the consequence of good and evil karmas, he is afflicted and hurt. Nevertheless, he, due to his egotism, piles up more karmas and undergoes births and deaths again and again.
In the depths of winter I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer.
Be more humble than a blade of grass, more tolerant than a tree, always offering respect onto others and never expecting any in return.
Anyone that is fallen into the grip of lust, wrath, or attachment…by contemplation of the Supreme Being, with a moment’s remembrance of God shall he be saved.
