The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.

To keep the body in good health is a duty… otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.

Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.

Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

“A disciplined mind brings happiness.”

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. 

“Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts.”

“There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind.”

“We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.”

“For soon the body is discarded, Then what does it feel? A useless log of wood, it lies on the ground, Then what does it know? Your worst enemy cannot harm you As much as your own thoughts, unguarded. But once mastered, No one can help you as much, Not even your father or your mother.”

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.

The external world is only a manifestation of the activities of the mind itself, and the mind grasps it as an external world simply because of its habit of discrimination and false-reasoning. The disciple must get into the habit of looking at things truthfully.

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

Transcendental intelligence rises when the intellectual mind reaches its limit and if things are to be realized in their true and essential nature, its processes of thinking must be transcended by an appeal to some higher faculty of cognition.

The one who has conquered himself is a far greater hero than he who has defeated a thousand times a thousand men.

What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our life is the creation of our mind.

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

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

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.