All wrongdoing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrongdoing remain?
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.
There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth...not going all the way, and not starting.
We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.
Do not dwell in the past; do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
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.