To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.
Words have the power to both destroy and heal. When words are both true and kind, they can change our world.
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.
Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it. That’s the mark of a true professional.
In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.
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.
From craving is born grief, from craving is born fear. For one freed from craving there’s no grief – so how fear?
