If you knew what I know about the power of giving, you would not let a single meal pass without sharing it in some way.
Those who act with few desires are calm, without worry or fear.
When we feel happy and peaceful, our happiness and peace radiates around us, and others can enjoy it as well. This is called 'the enjoyment of others of our body of bliss'.
If you sleep, Desire grows in you Like a vine in the forest. Like a monkey in the forest You jump from tree to tree, Never finding the fruit - From life to life, Never finding peace. If you are filled with desire Your sorrows swell Like the grass after the rain. But if you subdue desire Your sorrows shall fall from you Like drops of water from a lotus flower.
There are no chains like hate...dwelling on your brother's faults multiplies your own. You are far from the end of your journey.
How long the night to the watchman, How long the road to the weary traveller, How long the wandering of many lives To the fool who misses the way.
The ignorant man is an ox. He grows in size, not in wisdom.
Suffering is temporary, enlightenment is forever.
There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant.
There is no more self-contradictory concept than that of idle thoughts. What gives rise to the perception of a whole world can hardly be called idle. Every thought we have either contributes to truth or to illusion.
He who walks in the company of fools suffers much. Company with fools, as with an enemy, is always painful. Company with the wise is pleasure, like meeting with kinfolk.
Perfect wisdom, Perfect tranquility,Perfect compassion,arise fromOur love,Our sincerity.Our understanding.
We must be diligent today. To wait until tomorrow is too late. Death comes unexpectedly. How can we bargain with it?
With his mind free from the inflow of thoughts and from restlessness, by abandoning both good and evil, an alert man knows no fear.
There are three ways to correct our faults:We can change through behavior We can change through understanding We can change heart
When action comes out of nothing it creates no karma.
By oneself the evil is done, and it is oneself who suffers: by oneself the evil is not done, and by one's Self one becomes pure.
You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
Those who recognize the existence of suffering, its cause, its remedy, and its cessation, have fathomed the four noble truths. They will walk in the right path.
Through effort you will cross any raging flood, through energy you will pass any sorrow.
Friendship is the only cure for hatred, the only guarantee of peace.
If a string has one end, it has another.
"All conditioned things are impermanent" - when one sees this with wisdom, one turns away from suffering.
Why do what you will regret? Why bring tears upon yourself? Do only what you do not regret, And fill yourself with joy.
Hatred is never ended by hatred but by love.
