No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.
From craving is born grief, from craving is born fear. For one freed from craving there’s no grief – so how fear?
Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it. That’s the mark of a true professional.
There are ways from light into darkness and from darkness into light. There are ways, also, from the gloom into deeper darkness, and from the dawn into brighter light. The wise man will use the light he has to receive more light. He will constantly advance in the knowledge of truth.
Be determined. The Tempter masters the lazy and irresolute man who dwells on the attractive side of things, ungoverned in his senses, and unrestrained in his food, like the wind overcomes a rotten tree.
To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.