Purity

Our original nature is pure
as long as it is free from false thought.
-Hui Neng

To purify the soul is to hinder her from inclining towards lower things,

or from representing their images to herself;

it means annihilating the things from which she is thus separated,

so that she is no longer choked.

-Plotinus

When your body, speech and mind are purified,

we say a Buddha has appeared in the world.

When these three become impure,

we say a Buddha has been extinguished.

-Hui Hai

The pure heart is the end of all religion
and the beginning of all divinity.
-James Allen

The pure have left behind fragrance and color.
-Djalal ad-Din Rumi

Purity of heart can leave a fine example

for a hundred generations.

-Hong Zicheng