Every experience, no matter how bad it seems, holds within a blessing of some kind. The goal is to find it.
Look not for refuge to anyone beside yourself. Heed fast to the truth as a lamp.
The ignorant man is an ox. He grows in size, not in wisdom.
Let them not do the slightest thing that the wise would later reprove.
If you want to know the past, look at your present. If you want to know the future, look at your present.
If beings knew, as I know, the results of giving & sharing, they would not eat without having given.