When the solution is simple, God is answering.
In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
God always takes the simplest way.
Purity and impurity depend on oneself; no one can purify another.
He who can curb his wrath as soon as it arises, as a timely antidote will check snake's venom that so quickly spreads, — such a monk gives up the here and the beyond, just as a serpent sheds its worn-out skin.
Irrigators channel waters; fletchers straighten arrows; carpenters bend wood; the wise master themselves.
Resolutely train yourself to attain peace.
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.