If with a pure mind a person speaks or acts happiness follows him like his never-departing shadow.

Mind precedes all mental states. Mind is their chief; they are all mind-wrought.

The external world is only a manifestation of the activities of the mind itself, and the mind grasps it as an external world simply because of its habit of discrimination and false-reasoning. The disciple must get into the habit of looking at things truthfully.

The one who has conquered himself is a far greater hero than he who has defeated a thousand times a thousand men.

What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our life is the creation of our mind.

All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?

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.

All experiences are preceded by mind, having mind as their master, created by mind.

You are a seeker. Delight in the mastery of your hands and your feet, of your words and your thoughts.

Speak only endearing speech, speech that is welcomed. Speech, when it brings no evil to others, is a pleasant thing.

Kindness should become the natural way of life, not the exception.

We will develop and cultivate the liberation of mind by lovingkindness, make it our vehicle, make it our basis, stabilize it, exercise ourselves in it, and fully perfect it.

Let all-embracing thoughts for all beings be yours.

Love is a gift of one’s inner most soul to another so both can be whole.

TFtrurue love is born from understanding.

If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.

To support mother and father, to cherish wife and child and to have a simple livelihood; this is the good luck.

Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good.

Live every act fully, as if it were your last.

She who knows life flows, feels no wear or tear, needs no mending or repair.

One moment can change a day, one day can change a life and one life can change the world.

Should a seeker not find a companion who is better or equal, let them resolutely pursue a solitary course.

Life is so very hard. How can we be anything but kind?

Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.

If you truly loved yourself, you could never hurt another.

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.

It is better to travel well than to arrive.

When you like a flower, you just pluck it. But when you love a flower, you water it daily.

There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.

Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.

What you think you create, what you feel you attract, what you imagine you become.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.

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.

My doctrine is not a doctrine but just a vision. I have not given you any set rules, I have not given you a system.

Meditate. Live purely. Be quiet. Do your work with mastery. Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine.

Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again.

A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.

Doubt everything. Find your own light.

Every experience, no matter how bad it seems, holds within it a blessing of some kind. The goal is to find it.

If we destroy something around us we destroy ourselves. If we cheat another, we cheat ourselves.

The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.

In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you.

If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another.

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows

As you walk and eat and travel, be where you are. Otherwise you will miss most of your life.

I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.

As rain falls equally on the just and the unjust, do not burden your heart with judgments but rain your kindness equally on all.

You can only lose what you cling to.

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

The mind is everything. What you think you become.

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

The tongue like a sharp knife Kills without drawing blood.

Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.

A jug fills drop by drop.

I am the miracle.

Born out of concern for all beings.

May all beings have happy minds.

Attachment leads to suffering.

Chaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence.

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?

An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.

Our theories of the eternal are as valuable as are those which a chick which has not broken its way through its shell might form of the outside world.

Like a fine flower, beautiful to look at but without scent, fine words are fruitless in a man who does not act in accordance with them.

Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think. Joy follows a pure thought like a shadow that never leaves.

Whatever precious jewel there is in the heavenly worlds, there is nothing comparable to one who is Awakened.

Long is the night to him who is awake; long is a mile to him who is tired; long is life to the foolish who do not know the true law.

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.

The one in whom no longer exist the craving and thirst that perpetuate becoming; how could you track that Awakened one, trackless, and of limitless range.

Just as the great ocean has one taste, the taste of salt, so also this teaching and discipline has one taste, the taste of liberation.

Stop, stop. Do not speak. The ultimate truth is not even to think.

If you propose to speak always ask yourself, is it true, is it necessary, is it kind.

You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

Ardently do today what must be done. Who knows? Tomorrow, death comes.

Delight in meditation and solitude. Compose yourself, be happy. You are a seeker.

Ceasing to do evil, cultivating the good, purifying the heart: this is the teaching of the Buddhas.

Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.

Understanding is the heartwood of well-spoken words.

Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.

Nothing can harm you as much as your own thoughts unguarded.

You yourself must strive. The Buddhas only point the way.

People with opinions just go around bothering each other.

If you find no one to support you on the spiritual path, walk alone

The root of suffering is attachment.

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.

Even as a solid rock is unshaken by the wind, so are the wise unshaken by praise or blame.

Drop by drop is the water pot filled. Likewise, the wise man, gathering it little by little, fills himself with good.

Irrigators channel waters; fletchers straighten arrows; carpenters bend wood; the wise master themselves.

Silence the angry man with love. Silence the ill-natured man with kindness. Silence the miser with generosity. Silence the liar with truth.

Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.

He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.

The greatest gift is to give people your enlightenment, to share it. It has to be the greatest.

Give, even if you only have a little

There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind

When watching after yourself, you watch after others. When watching after others, you watch after yourself

What you are is what you have been. What you’ll be is what you do now.

Wear your ego like a loose fitting garment.

One who acts on truth is happy in this world and beyond

If we fail to look after others when they need help, who will look after us?

A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again; but if he is peaceful, loving and fearless then he is in truth called wise.

To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one’s own in the midst of abundance

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

Do not look for a sanctuary in anyone except your self.

All that we are is the result of what we have thought.

If anything is worth doing, do it with all your heart