If your mind becomes firm like a rock And no longer shakes In a world where everything is shaking, Your mind will be your greatest friend And suffering will not come your way.

- Theragatha

Evil is done by oneself by oneself is one defiled. Evil is left undone by oneself by oneself is one cleansed. Purity & impurity are one's own doing. No one purifies another. No one purifies one.

- Dhammapada, 12, translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu.

An evil deed, when done, doesn't,like ready milk come out right away. It follows the fool, smoldering like a fire hidden in ashes.

- Dhammapada, 5, translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu


Don't associate with bad friends. Don't associate with the low. Associate with admirable friends. Associate with the best.

- Dhammapada 78, translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu

Neither from itself nor from another, Nor from both, Nor without a cause, Does anything whatever, anywhere arise.

- Nagarjuna, "Mulamadhyamaka-Karika"