Independent inquiry is needed in your search for truth, not dependence on anyone else's view or a mere book.

Sorrows are our best educator. A man can see further through a tear than a telescope.

The knowledge and skills you have achieved are meant to be forgotten so you can float comfortably in emptiness, without obstruction.

Effort within the mind further limits the mind, because effort implies struggle towards a goal and when you have a goal, a purpose, an end in view, you have placed a limit on the mind.

When we suddenly awake to the realization that there is no barrier, and never has been, one realizes that one is all things mountains, rivers, grasses, trees, sun, moon, stars, universe are all oneself. There is no longer a division or barrier between myself and others, no longer any feeling of alienation or fear there is nothing apart from oneself and therefore nothing to fear. Realizing this results in true compassion. Other people and things are not seen as apart from oneself but, on the contrary, as one's own body.

The more complicated and restricted the method, the less opportunity for expression of one's original sense of freedom.

Only the self-sufficient stand alone - most people follow the crowd and imitate.