Since cleverness is your pride
and fills you with wind,
become a simpleton so that
your heart may remain healthy.
Not a simpleton warped by buffoonery,
but one distraught and bewildered in God.

~ Rumi

If he is not too proud to begin at the point where he finds himself rather than at some point where he once was or would now like to be, if he is willing to advance one step at a time, he may realize his goal far more quickly than the less humble and more pretentious man is likely to realize it.

~ Paul Brunton

Q: " Why is life so full of contradictions?"

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It serves to break down mental pride.
We must realize how poor and powerless
we are. As long as we delude ourselves
by what we imagine ourselves to be, to
know, to have, to do, we are in a sad
plight indeed. Only in complete self-
negation there is a chance to discover
our real being.
- Nisargadatta Maharaj