Winning is based to a certain extent upon personal power. If you have enough personal power you tend to win. If you don't, you tend to lose.

There is another kind of wisdom, the wisdom of following - the wisdom of not taking the lead with your ego.

Meditate. Look at the candle flame - or whatever object you have chosen to gaze upon - with intensity.

When you laugh at the world, the world dissolves.

Now, stopping thought is only the beginning. As Brahmananda, who was a disciple of Sri Ramakrishna, once remarked: The inner life begins with samadhi. This is an awesome thought, I realize, for the average person who meditates, that it could begin with samadhi.

When you go into the planes of light, all of the incorrect ways of seeing and understanding life that you pick up are washed away.

Taoism means streching your being, becoming both a man and a woman and joining within yourself, to be the heavens themselves, to stretch your awareness beyond the breaking point until all opposites are reconciled within yourself.