If you light a lamp for somebody, it will also brighten your path.
Set your heart on doing good. Do it over and over again, and you will be filled with joy.
Have compassion for all beings, rich and poor alike; each has their suffering. Some suffer too much, others too little.
Believe not because some old manuscripts are produced, believe not because it is your national belief, believe not because you have been made to believe from you childhood, but reason truth out, and after you have analyzed it, then if you find it will do good to one and all, believe it, live up to it and help others live up to it.
Pay no attention to the faults of others, things done or left undone by others. Consider only what by oneself is done or left undone.
If a man going down into a river, swollen and swiftly flowing, is carried away by the current - how can he help others across?
