gems from the Dhammapada...

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world. Speak or act with an impure mind and trouble will follow you..... as the wheel follows the ox that draws the cart...Speak or act with a pure mind. And happiness will follow you.....as your shadow, unshakeable.

~Dhammapada (the sayings of the Buddha)