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Only fools imagine they are already awake. How clearly they understand everything! How easily they distinguish this deception from that reality!

Zhuangzi

My opinion is that you never find happiness until you stop looking for it.
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Finding Happiness Opinion Stop Yourself
If you have insight, you use your inner eye, your inner ear, to pierce to the heart of things, and have no need of intellectual knowledge.
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Heart Insight Intellectual Knowledge Pierce
If you have grasped the purpose of life there is no point in trying to make life into something it is not or cannot be.
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Life Point Purpose
Each one’s destiny cannot be altered.
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Change Destiny One Liner Oneself
To be constant is to be useful. To be useful is to realize one’s true nature. Realization of one’s true nature is happiness. When one reaches happiness, one is close to perfection.
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Constant Happiness Nature Oneself Perfection Realize
Look at this window: it is nothing but a hole in the wall, but because of it the whole room is full of light. So when the faculties are empty, the heart is full of light.
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Empty Heart Light Room Window
Luck implies an absolute absence of any principle.
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Absence Luck Principle
To be truly ignorant, be content with your own knowledge.
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Ignorance Knowledge True Yourself
If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror of the universe, the speculum of all creation.
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Calm Creation Mindset Mirror Universe Water
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
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
Take care of your body, then the rest will automatically become stronger.
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Automatic Body Care Strong Willing
Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.
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Education Form Low Punishment Reward
The one-legged creature is envious of the millipede; the millipede is envious of the snake; the snake is envious of the wind; the wind is envious of the eye; the eye is envious of the heart.
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Animal Creature Eyes Heart Jealous Wind
A frog in a well cannot conceive of the ocean.
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Deep Ocean One Liner
When I talk about having good hearing, I don’t mean just listening, but listening to yourself. When I talk about good eyesight, I don’t mean just looking, but looking at yourself.
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Eyes Goodness Hearing Listening Myself Sight Talk

Only fools imagine they are already awake. How clearly they understand everything! How easily they distinguish this deception from that reality!

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