Fear comes from uncertainty; we can eliminate the fear within us when we know ourselves better. As the great Sun Tzu said: “When you know yourself and your opponent, you will win every time. When you know yourself but not your opponent, you will win one and lose one. However, when you do not know yourself or your opponent, you will be imperiled every time.

Get maximum effect from minimum effort.

People try to hold onto the sameness. This holding onto prevents growth.

When one has reached maturity in this art, one will have the formless form. It is like the dissolving or thawing [of] ice into water that can shape itself to any structure. When one has no form, one can be all forms; when one has no style, one can fit in with any style.

If you want to learn to swim you have to throw yourself in the water.

Now I see that I will never find the light Unless, like the candle, I am my own fuel, Consuming myself.

Since life is an ever evolving process, one should flow in this process and discover how to actualize and expand oneself.