I believe compassion to be one of the few things we can practice that will bring immediate and long-term happiness to our lives.
He who is in the fire, and he who is here in the heart, and he who is yonder in the sun - he is One.
Why impress false religion on the world? It will be of no service to it. Why run about for the sake of wealth? You cannot escape from death… Think, O think, you thoughtless fool, you shall have in the end to depart alone.
In thinking, “This is I” and “That is mine”, he binds himself with his self, as does a bird with a snare.
To trust a stranger without investigation invites troubles so endless that even descendants must endure them. To rust a man who has not been tested and to suspect a man who has proven trustworthy lead alike to endless ills.
