Therefore, be islands unto yourselves. Be your own refuge. Have recourse to none else for refuge. Hold fast to the Dharma as an island. Hold fast to the Dharma as a refuge. Resort to no other refuge. Whosoever, either now or after I am gone, shall be islands unto themselves, refuges unto themselves, shall seek no external refuge,it is they, among my disciples who shall reach the very topmost height! But they must be keen to progress.

Rather than continuing to seek the truth, simply let go of your views.

There is no wealth like knowledge, and no poverty like ignorance.

We forgive principally for our own sake, so that we may cease to bear the burden of rancour.

You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.

No one saves us but ourselves, no one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path but Buddhas clearly show the way.

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