A desired thing often comes with seeds of at least one desire.

Growth is often the parent or the child of pain.

Developing the extremely rare attitude of not minding how life is happening is a billion times better than prolonging your life, even if by a trillion years.

You have not yet reaped the sweetest fruits of meditation, if you still do not meditate only to meditate.

To chase pleasure is to be chased by pain.

We love being mentally strong, but we hate situations that allow us to put our mental strength to good use.

The problem with pleasure is that it needs to be intermittent in order to retain its pleasantness.

We get a taste of death, not when we’re asleep, but when we awake.

Fools refuse to truly believe that a thing can be both delicious or pleasurable … and harmful.