You are adrift while you still think that a means is an end.
No practice exists in isolation.
A generous person may not have wisdom: but, unlike others, he has the means to gain it.
The more wakeful a man is to the things which surround him, the more asleep is he, and his waking is worse than his sleep.
There is a Persian proverb: 'To test that which has been tested is ignorance.' To try to test something without the means of testing is even worse.
Premature independence is the daughter of conceit.