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A man wants to walk across the land, but the Earth is covered with thorns. He has two options — one is to pave his road, to tame all of nature into compliance. The other is to make sandals.

While a fixation on results is certainly unhealthy, short-term goals can be useful developmental tools if they are balanced within a nurturing long-term philosophy.

One has to investigate the principle in one thing or one event exhaustively… Things and the self are governed by the same principle. If you understand one, you understand the other, for the truth within and the truth without are identical.