While the world is constructing rafts—these wise ones escape.

According to the Udâna, the Buddha sees people looking for a boat or building rafts to cross a river; he says that the wise have built a bridge, the path of wisdom, to cross the ocean of suffering and leave behind them the marshes of craving. Today, faced with a worry, instead of rushing into a thousand solutions, look for the simple, sure step that moves you forward, and take it.