Don't think you can attain total awareness and whole enlightenment without proper discipline and practice. This is egomania. Appropriate rituals channel your emotions and life energy toward the light. Without the discipline to practice them, you will tumble constantly backward into darkness.

The small is easy to scatter.

Those who are content suffer no disgrace.

People take death lightly. They expect too much of life. That is why people take death lightly.

The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth.

You cannot receive what you don't give. Outflow determines inflow.

The usefulness of a pot comes from its emptiness.