From craving is born grief, from craving is born fear. For one freed from craving there’s no grief – so how fear?
There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth...not going all the way, and not starting.
We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.
Be determined. The Tempter masters the lazy and irresolute man who dwells on the attractive side of things, ungoverned in his senses, and unrestrained in his food, like the wind overcomes a rotten tree.
A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another. If these minds love one another the home will be as beautiful as a flower garden. But if these minds get out of harmony with one another it is like a storm that plays havoc with the garden.
Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn’t learn a little, at least we didn’t get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn’t die; so, let us all be thankful.
Words have the power to both destroy and heal. When words are both true and kind, they can change our world.
