We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.
From craving is born grief, from craving is born fear. For one freed from craving there’s no grief – so how fear?
I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.
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.
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.
The Eightfold Path: Right view, right aim, right speech, right action, right living, right effort, right mindfulness, right contemplation.

