Whatever is to be made to fall,
first must be raised.
If you want to become whole,
first let yourself become broken.
If you want to become straight,
first let yourself become twisted.
If you want to become full,
first let yourself become empty.
(Tao)

When you demand nothing of
the world, nor of god,
when you want nothing,
seek nothing, expect nothing,
then the Supreme State will come
to you uninvited and unexpected.   
(Nisargadatta Maharaj)

That without substance
can enter where there is no room.
For sometimes things are ahead
and sometimes follow behind;
Sometimes they blow hot
and sometimes cold;
Sometimes they are far
and sometimes near.
And so the world is mastered by
letting things take their course,
It cannot be mastered by interfering.
(Tao)

See, all things howsoever they flourish Return to the source from which they grew. For the timeless net has been cast wide, Coarse are its meshes, yet nothing slips through.
(Tao)

One who has not passed through the inferno of their passions has never overcome them. (Carl Jung)