Quotes

Focus:
All that we are is the result of what we have thought.

Friendship:
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.

Calmness:
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned.

Attitude:
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.

Self Discipline:
It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.

Happiness:
Meditate. Live purely. Be quiet. Do your work with mastery. Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine.

Life:
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.

Happiness:
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

Philosophy:
We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world.

Business:
Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.

The Ten Worlds

Hell — This is a state of suffering and despair, in which we perceive we
have no freedom of action. It is characterized by the impulse to destroy
ourselves and everything around us.

Hunger — Hunger is the state of being controlled by insatiable desire for
money, power, status, or whatever. While desires are inherent in any of the ten
worlds, in this state we are at the mercy of our cravings and cannot control
them

Animality — In this state, we are ruled by instinct. We exhibit neither reason
nor moral sense nor the ability to make long-range judgments. In the world of
Animality, we operate by the law of the jungle, so to speak. We will not hesitate to take advantage of those weaker than ourselves and fawn on those who are stronger.

Anger — In this next state, awareness of ego emerges, but it is a selfish, greedy, distorted ego, determined to best others at all costs and seeing everything as a potential threat to itself. In this state we value only ourselves and tend to hold others in contempt. We are strongly attached to the idea of our own superiority and cannot bear to admit that anyone exceeds us in anything.

Humanity– This is a flat, passive state of life,
from which we can easily shift into the lower four worlds. While we may generally behave in a humane fashion in this state, we are highly vulnerable to strong external influences.

Heaven– This is a state of intense joy stemming, for example,from the fulfillment of some desire, a sense of physical well-being, or inner contentment. Though intense, the joy experienced in this state is short-lived
and also vulnerable to external influences.

Learning — In this state, we seek the truth through the teachings or experience of others.

Realization — This state is similar to Learning, except that we seek the truth
not through others’ teachings but through our own direct perception of the world.

Bodhisattva — Bodhisattvas are those who aspire to achieve enlightenment and at the same time are equally determined to enable all other beings to do the same.
Conscious of the bonds that link us to all others, in this state we realize that any happiness we alone enjoy is incomplete, and we devote ourselves to alleviating others’ suffering. Those in this state find their greatest satisfaction in altruistic behavior.

Buddhahood — Buddhahood is a dynamic state that is difficult to describe. We can partially describe it as a state of perfect freedom, in which we are enlightened to the ultimate truth of life. It is characterized by infinite compassion and boundless wisdom. In this state, we can resolve harmoniously what appear from the standpoint of the nine worlds to be insoluble contradictions.

Sources:- SGI-USA