All the texts say that in order to gain release one should render the mind quiescent; therefore their conclusive teaching is that the mind should be rendered quiescent; once this has been understood there is no need for endless reading.

艺术是我的全部生命。

聪明用在正道上，越聪明越好，文采名声会帮助他事业渐进；聪明用在邪路上，越聪明越坏，文才名声只助长其伪诈丑行。

There is no love that’s so right as admiration-based love, and that love should include the instructive dead. Somehow, I got that idea and I lived with it all my life and it’s been very very useful to me.