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Great understanding is broad and unhurried; little understanding is cramped and busy.

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He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar.
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Fame Fear Pursue Risk Scholar
Good fortune is as light as a feather, but nobody knows how to pick it up. Misfortune is as heavy as earth, but nobody knows how to stay out of it’s way.
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Earth Fortune Goodness heavy Stay Way
Can a man cling to the positive without any negative in contrast to which it is seen to be positive? If he claims to do so he is a rouge or a madman.
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Mad Man Negative Positive
A path is made by walking on it.
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Inspirational Journey One Liner Path Walk
Let your mind wander in the pure and simple. Be one with the infinite. Let all things take their course.
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Course Flow Infinity Mindset Purity Simplicity Yourself
The perfect man uses his mind as a mirror. It grasps nothing. It regrets nothing. It receives but does not keep.
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Himself Mindset Mirror Perfection Regret
He who knows he is a fool is not the biggest fool; He who knows he is confused is not in the worst confusion.
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Aware Confusion Fools Worst
Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.
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Beyond Dependent Honor Knowledge Lying Man
Let everything be allowed to do what it naturally does, so that its nature will be satisfied.
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Allow Natural Satisfaction Yourself
All existing things are really one. We regard those that are beautiful and rare as valuable, and those that are ugly as foul and rotten. The foul and rotten may come to be transformed into what is rare and valuable, and the rare and valuable into what is foul and rotten.
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Beautiful Existence Rare Regard Transformation Ugly Value
To be truly ignorant, be content with your own knowledge.
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Ignorance Knowledge True Yourself
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
Great understanding is broad and unhurried; little understanding is cramped and busy.
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Broad Busy Calm Greatness Understand
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
Each one’s destiny cannot be altered.
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Change Destiny One Liner Oneself
The eyes envy the mind.
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Eyes Jealous Mindset

Great understanding is broad and unhurried; little understanding is cramped and busy.

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