Piyawadana

It is important to know your own weakness. Then you can improve. If some Tibetan and Hindu Lamas consider themselves great, it is important to test, to criticize, to tease them. If they still remain completely calm, that shows they truly…

Nothing can harm you as much as your own thoughts unguarded.

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.

Greater in battle than the man who would conquer a thousand-thousand men, is he who would conquer just one - himself. Better to conquer yourself than others. When you've trained yourself, living in constant self-control, neither a…

Conquer the angry one by not getting angry; conquer the wicked by goodness; conquer the stingy by generosity, and the liar by speaking the truth.

A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again; but if he is peaceful, loving and fearless then he is in truth called wise.

If you truly loved yourself, you could never hurt another!

There is no path to happiness: happiness is the path.

Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.

Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe…