Nothing can harm you as much as your own thoughts unguarded.
As rain falls equally on the just and the unjust, do not burden your heart with judgements but rain your kindness equally on all.
You throw thorns, falling in my silence they become flowers.
Those who have failed to work toward the truth have missed the purpose of living.
Pain is certain, suffering is optional.
In separateness lies the world's greatest misery; in compassion lies the world's true strength.
The Gift of Truth excels all other Gifts.
If you propose to speak always ask yourself, is it true, is it necessary, is it kind.
The one who has conquered himself is a far greater hero than he who has defeated a thousand times a thousand men.
Friendship is the only cure for hatred, the only guarantee of peace.
What you are is what you have been. What you'll be is what you do now.
He who experiences the unity of life sees his own Self in all beings, and all beings in his own Self, and looks on everything with an impartial eye.
If a traveller does not meet with one who is his better, or his equal, let him firmly keep to his solitary journey; there is no companionship with a fool.
True love is born from understanding.
Remembering a wrong is like carrying a burden on the mind.
Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.
Look not to the faults of others, nor to their omissions and commissions. But rather look to your own acts, to what you have done and left undone.
Imagine that every person in the world is enlightened but you. They are all your teachers, each doing just the right things to help you learn perfect patience, perfect wisdom, perfect compassion.
The forest is a peculiar organism of unlimited kindness and benevolence that makes no demands for its sustenance and extends generously the products of its life activity; it affords protection to all beings, offering shade even to the axe-man who destroys it.
For the good of the many, for the happiness of the many, out of compassion for the world.
