All the wealth you've acquired from beginningless time until now has failed to fulfill all your desires. Cultivate therefore this wish-granting gem of moderation, O fortunate ones.

- Milarepa, "Drinking the Mountain Stream


Our very nature is Buddha, and apart from this nature there is no other Buddha.

- The Sutra of Hui Neng

By him who speaks only to help beings, It was said that all beings Have arisen from the conception of I And are enveloped with the conception of mine.

- Nagarjuna, "Precious Garland

Those with initiative, mindful, clean in action, acting with due consideration, heedful, restrained, living the Dharma: their glory grows. Through initiative, heedfulness, restraint, & self-control, the wise would make an island no flood can submerge.

- Dhammapada, 2, translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu