We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.
There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth...not going all the way, and not starting.
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.
From craving is born grief, from craving is born fear. For one freed from craving there’s no grief – so how fear?
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who has said it, not even if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.
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.
