Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be obtained only by someone who is detached.
Supporting one’s parents, cherishing spouse and children and a peaceful occupation; this is the greatest blessing.
In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.
You deserve to be called a human being only when you develop good feelings in you. Let your thoughts, words and deeds be suffused with sacred feelings.
Just as rivers flow from east and west to merge with the one sea, forgetting that they were ever separate rivers, so all beings lose their separateness when they eventually merge into pure Being.
You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
