Words have the power to both destroy and heal. When words are both true and kind, they can change our world.
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.
We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.
All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If you speak or act with an evil thought, pain follows. If you speak or act with a pure thought, happiness follows, like a shadow that never leaves.
To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.
From craving is born grief, from craving is born fear. For one freed from craving there’s no grief – so how fear?
