When both the teacher and the divine stand before you, bow first to the teacher, because it is the teacher who revealed the path to the divine. The one who shows you the way takes precedence over the destination itself.
The divine is not located in temples, mosques, pilgrimages, or external ritual, but inside the seeker, who searches everywhere except where it resides. The musk deer runs through the forest hunting the scent it carries in its own body.
When you go out looking for a wicked person you find none, because looking honestly into your own heart reveals that no one is worse than yourself. The gaze trained on others' faults should be turned inward first.
Do tomorrow's task today and today's task now, for if the moment passes and destruction comes, the deed can never be done. Delay is treated not as prudence but as the loss of the only time available for action.