“Simplicity, Patience, Compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being. Patient with both friends and enemies, you accord with the way things are. Compassionate toward yourself, you reconcile all…
“The ultimate source of a happy life is warm-heartedness. This means extending to others the kind of concern we have for ourselves. On a simple level we find that if we have a compassionate heart we naturally have more friends.…
“The Friend has come! My sun and Moon, my sight and hearing that Beauty suddenly appeared by my side. The one who was always in my thoughts for whom I’ve searched so long has come to me with open arms…
“Having departed from this life And from all my friends and relatives, If all alone I must go elsewhere What is the use of making friends and enemies?”
“The one who has a good friend doesn’t need any mirror.”
“When seized by the messengers of death, What benefit will friends and relatives afford? My merit alone shall protect me then, But upon that I have never relied.”