Maturation is the development from environmental support to self-support.

I refer to my hands, feet and body as the tools of the trade. The hands and feet must be sharpened and improved daily to be efficient.

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.

Taoist philosophy is essentially monistic. Matter and energy, Yang and Yin, heaven and earth, are conceived of as essentially one or as two coexistent poles of one indivisible whole.

Have no rigid system in you, and you'll be flexible to change with the ever changing.

There is no such thing as maturity. There is instead an ever-evolving process of maturing. Because when there is a maturity, there is a conclusion and a cessation. That’s the end. That’s when the coffin is closed. You might be deteriorating physically in the long process of aging, but your personal process of daily discovery is ongoing. You continue to learn more and more about yourself every day.

You must accept the fact that there is no help but self-help. I cannot tell you how to gain freedom since freedom exists within you.