Breakfast with Buddha

From Breakfast with Buddha by Roland Merullo.

"Here is Buddhist prayer," he said, and he rolled off a few sentences, "All that we are is the result of what we have thought: It is built on our thoughts, it is made from our thoughts. If a man speaks or acts with evil thought, pain follows him, just like the wheels followed the foot of the ox that draws the cart. If a person speaks or acts with pure thought, happiness follows him. like a shadow that never leaves."