If with a pure mind a person speaks or acts happiness follows him like his never-departing shadow.

Mind precedes all mental states. Mind is their chief; they are all mind-wrought.

I will not look at another’s bowl intent on finding fault: a training to be observed.

All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?

All experiences are preceded by mind, having mind as their master, created by mind.

‘As I am, so are these. As are these, so am I.’ Drawing the parallel to yourself, neither kill nor get others to kill.

See them, floundering in their sense of mine, like fish in the puddles of a dried-up stream — and, seeing this, live with no mine, not forming attachment for states of becoming.

You are a seeker. Delight in the mastery of your hands and your feet, of your words and your thoughts.

Know from the rivers in clefts and in crevices: those in small channels flow noisily, the great flow silent. Whatever’s not full makes noise. Whatever is full is quiet.

Delight in heedfulness! Guard well your thoughts!

“Happiness is not having a lot. Happiness is giving a lot.”

“Happiness never decreases by being shared.”

Let all-embracing thoughts for all beings be yours.

Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.

Should a seeker not find a companion who is better or equal, let them resolutely pursue a solitary course.

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.

One moment can change a day, one day can change a life and one life can change the world.

Nothing ever exists entirely alone; everything is in relation to everything else.

“If a man’s thoughts are muddy, If he is reckless and full of deceit, How can he wear the yellow robe? Whoever is master of his own nature, Bright, clear and true, He may indeed wear the yellow robe.”

“There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.”

“To abstain from lying is essentially wholesome.”

“The trouble is, you think you have time.”

“You only lose what you cling to.”