Novak, Philip, The Dhammapada, Sayings of the Buddha:
All that we are is a result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts, it is made up of our thoughts. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him, as the wheel follows the foot of the ox that draws the wagon.
All that we are is a result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts, it is made up of our thoughts. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.
Mindfulness is the way to the deathless, inattentiveness the way to death. Those who are diligently attentive do not die, those who are thoughtless are as if dead already.
As a fletcher makes straight his arrow, a wise man makes straight his trembling and unsteady mind, which is difficult to guard, difficult to hold back.
It is good to tame the mind, which is difficult to hold in and flighty, rushing [about]; a tamed mind brings happiness.
Novak, Philip. The World’s Wisdom (P.104). HarperOne. Kindle-Version.
