
From craving is born grief, from craving is born fear. For one freed from craving there’s no grief – so how fear?

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship… To keep the body in good health is a duty… otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.

Develop a mind of equilibrium. You will always be getting praise and blame, but do not let either affect poise of mind: follow calmness, the absence of pride.

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth...not going all the way, and not starting.

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If you speak or act with an evil thought, pain follows. If you speak or act with a pure thought, happiness follows, like a shadow that never leaves.
