Patience is not a virtue!
A good gardener looks at every plant every day.
Filthy, mucky tools: filthy, mucky work. Clean, beautiful tools: clean, beautiful work.
The Gardener does not create the Garden. The Garden creates the Gardener.
The one infallible sign that a spiritual teacher is a fraud is that he charges money for his instruction.
Science is an excellent piece of furniture to have in the second story, providing that you have common sense on the ground floor.