If, from time to time, you give up expectation, you will be able to perceive what it is you are getting.
A generous person may not have wisdom: but, unlike others, he has the means to gain it.
Advice is priceless: when it becomes interference it is preposterous.
If the path has been laid down, why the successive appearance of different teachers? Why would anyone reinvent the wheel, if everything were as cosy and sequential as primitive longing so easily convinces us?
Knowledge is something which you can use. Belief is something which uses you.
Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information.