he who would stand outside himself to kick himself, must then kick the self that stands outside. And so forever. - Alan Watts

[T]he wisdom of the East has a strictly practical aim which is not mere knowledge about the universe; it aims at a transformation of the individual and of his feeling for life through experience rather than belief. This experience is psychological or spiritual, not metaphysical, and except in certain specialized fields has no relation to occultism or to what we understand in the West as philosophy.

Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.

To practice with an end in view is to have one eye on the practice and the other on the end, which is lack of concentration, lack of sincerity.