…If you want to become full, let yourself be empty. If you want to be reborn, let yourself die. If you want to be given everything, give everything up. … When the ancient Masters said, “If you want to be given everything, give everything up,” they weren’t using empty phrases. Only in being lived by the Tao can you be truly yourself.
Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching, Stephen Mitchell translation [Tao: roughly, the Way.]
Jesus said, “If you want to be complete, sell what you own, and give the money to the poor. Then you will have treasure in heaven. And come follow me.”
Matthew 19:21, The Common English Bible
“So those who are last will be first. And those who are first will be last.”
Jesus, in The Common English Bible, Matthew 20:16
“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in service to others.”
Mahatma Gandhi
