You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection
From craving is born grief, from craving is born fear. For one freed from craving there’s no grief – so how fear?
I reached in experience the nirvana which is unborn, unrivalled, secure from attachment, undecaying and unstained. This condition is indeed reached by me - deep, difficult to see, difficult to understand, tranquil, excellent, beyond the reach of mere logic, subtle, and to be realised only by the wise.
We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.
A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
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.