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.
Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.
Home isn't a place, it's the people who make you feel you belong.
As we delve deeper into the quantum world, the importance of topology in understanding and manipulating quantum states becomes increasingly clear.
I quite agree with them that it is not an ennobling experience. Poverty entails fear, and stress, and sometimes depression; it means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts, that is indeed something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is romanticised only by fools.