Welcome aboard! Apart from all the hackneyed clichés about the Way each one has to find for her/himself, etc., what I found most useful was this statement by Alan Chapman according to which Truth is experiential, i.e. you can't put wisdom into words, you have to experience it. We're all learning by trial and error, we're all seekers (and that's perhaps why we're reading so many books). Here's a quote by Carlos Castaneda:
A path is only a path, and there is no affront, to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you . . . Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you think necessary. Then ask yourself alone, one question . . . Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn't it is of no use.
Useful indeed but then you might begin to ask yourself, "Is it really my heart that's making these oh-so-enlightened decisions or just my deluded ego?" which may land you squarely in Buddhism. Or not. Personally, I've found out that a hard tortuous path does not necessarily lead to enlightment or wisdom - if there's no joy, no fascination and no fun on the way, just hard graft (that's why I don't like Franz Bardon at the moment but that may change), then it's just not worth it because life's too short. Just my two cents.
