To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance.

— Gautama Buddha

True love is born from understanding.

— Gautama Buddha

Tune as the sitar, neither high nor low, and we will dance away the hearts of men.

— Gautama Buddha

We live in illusion and the appearance of things. There is a reality. We are that reality. When you understand this, you see that you are nothing, and being nothing, you are everything. That is all.

— Gautama Buddha

Whatever a monk keeps pursuing with his thinking and pondering, that becomes the inclination of his awareness.

— Gautama Buddha

What is evil? Killing is evil, lying is evil, slandering is evil, abuse is evil, gossip is evil, envy is evil, hatred is evil, to cling to false doctrine is evil; all these things are evil. And what is the root of evil? Desire is the root of evil, illusion is the root of evil.

— Gautama Buddha

What is the happiness ? Is it really happiness ? Nothing stable, just happen, stay and decay... Everything is impermanence, dissatisfaction and nothing can ever belong to itself

— Gautama Buddha

When the Aggregates arise, decay and die, O Shikoku, every moment you are born, decay, and die.

— Gautama Buddha

Whoever sees me sees the teaching, and whoever sees the teaching sees me.

— Gautama Buddha

Who have not led the holy life nor riches won while young, they linger on as aged cranes around a fished-out pond?

— Gautama Buddha