One act of pure love in saving life is greater than spending the whole of ones time in religious offerings to the gods. – Dhammapada

Delight in heedfulness. Watch over your own mind. Lift yourself up from the hard-going way, like a tusker sunk in the mud. – Dhammapada [327]

When a person lives heedlessly, his craving grows like a creeping vine. He runs now here & now there, as if looking for fruit: a monkey in the forest. If this sticky, uncouth craving overcomes you in the world, your sorrows grow like wild grass after rain. If, in the world, you overcome this uncouth… Read More WEEKLY WISDOM 14/12/2015

As a single slab of rock Won’t budge in the wind, So the wise are not moved By praise, By blame. Like a deep lake, Clear, unruffled, & calm; So the wise become clear, Calm, On hearing words of the Dhamma. – Dhammapada [6]