The mind is everything. What you think you become. |
The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows. |
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly. |
The stages of the Noble Path are: Right View, Right Thought, Right Speech, Right Behavior, Right Livelihood, Right Effort, Right Mindfulness and Right Concentration. |
The tongue like a sharp knife... Kills without drawing blood. |
The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast. |
The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart. |
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed. |
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed. |
The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve. |
The world, indeed, is like a dream and the treasures of the world are an alluring mirage! Like the apparent distances in a picture, things have no reality in themselves, but they are like heat haze. |
There are five things which no one is able to accomplish in this world: first, to cease growing old when he is growing old; second, to cease being sick; third, to cease dying; fourth, to deny dissolution when there is dissolution; fifth, to deny non-being. |
There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth...not going all the way, and not starting. |
There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth...not going all the way, and not starting. |
There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it. |