Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them. Only by having faith in ourselves can we be faithful to others. Once we accept ourselves, it doesn't matter what we do. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.
Charity is in the heart of man, and righteousness in the path of men.
Pity the man who has lost his path and does not follow it and who has lost his heart and does not know how to recover it. When people's dogs and chicks are lost they go out and look for them and yet the people who have lost their hearts do not go out and look for them. The principle of self-cultivation consists in nothing but trying to look for the lost heart. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen. It is for us to harmonize with this order.