We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.
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.
A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
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?
Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it. That’s the mark of a true professional.
I reached in experience the nirvana which is unborn, unrivalled, secure from attachment, undecaying and unstained. This condition is indeed reached by me - deep, difficult to see, difficult to understand, tranquil, excellent, beyond the reach of mere logic, subtle, and to be realised only by the wise.
