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Cherish that which is in you and shut out that which is without, for much knowledge is a curse.

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To have attained to the human form is a source of joy. What an incomparable bliss it is to undergo these countless transitions.
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Bliss Count Form Happiness Human Joy Source Transition
My opinion is that you never find happiness until you stop looking for it.
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Finding Happiness Opinion Stop Yourself
Men do not mirror themselves in running water – they mirror themselves in still water. Only what is still can still the stillness of other things.
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Deep Man Mirror Run Water
When people do not ignore what they should ignore, but ignore what they should not ignore, this is known as ignorance.
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Ignorance People Philosophy
There may be difficulty at the moment, but I will not lose the Virtue that I possess. It is when the ice and snow are on them that we see the strength of the cypress and the pine. I am grateful for this trouble around me, because it gives me an opportunity to realize how fortunate I am.
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Difficult Fortunate Gratitude Lose Moments Myself Opportunity Possession Realize Snow Strength Trouble Virtue
Verily God does not reward man for what he does, but for what he is.
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God Himself Man Reward Work
When affirmation and negation came into being, Tao faded. After Tao faded, then came one-sided attachments.
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Affirmation Attachment Negative Oneself Religious
If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind.
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Calm Mindset Water
When there is no more separation between ‘this’ and ‘that,’ it is called the still-point of the Tao. At the still point in the center of the circle one can see the infinite in all things.
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Infinite Point Religious Separate Sight View Yourself
The effect of life in society is to complicate and confuse our existence, making us forget who we really are by causing us to become obsessed with what we are not.
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Complication Confusion Effect Existence Forget Life Obsession Ourselves Society
When the heart is right, “for” and “against” are forgotten.
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Forget Heart Right
The ultimate happiness is doing nothing.
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Happiness Philosophy Ultimate
Everything has what is innate,everything has what is necessary.
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Enough Nature Necessary
One whose inner being is fixed upon such greatness emits a Heavenly glow. Even though he has this Heavenly glow, others will see him as just a man. Someone who has reached this point will begin to be consistent.
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Beginning Consistent Glow Greatness Heaven Point
And how do I know that the hate of death is not like a man who has lost his home when young and does not know where his home is to return to?
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Death Hate Lost Man Myself Name Return Young
Are you and I perchance caught up in a dream from which we have not yet awakened?
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Awake Dreams Myself Yourself

Cherish that which is in you and shut out that which is without, for much knowledge is a curse.

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