"You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection."
"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense."
"Few among men are they who cross to the further shore. The others merely run up and down the bank on this side."
"When the Aggregates arise, decay and die, O bhikkhu, every moment you are born, decay, and die."
"Few among men are they who cross to the further shore. The others merely run up and down the bank on this side."
"You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection"