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The little child learns to speak, though it has no learned teachers – because it lives with those who know how to speak.

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The true man breathes with his heels.
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Breathe Heel Man One Liner Philosophy True
Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.
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Education Form Low Punishment Reward
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
To exercise no-thought and rest in nothing is the first step toward resting in Tao. To start from nowhere and follow no road is the first step toward attaining Tao.
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Beginning End Exercise Flow Religious Road Spirituality Thinking
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
All men know the utility of useful things; but they do not know the utility of futility.
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Known Men Utility
There is danger for the eye in seeing too clearly, danger for the ear in hearing too sharply and danger to the heart from caring too greatly.
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Clear Dangerous Eyes Greatness Heart Sharp
The eye is a menace to clear sight, the ear is a menace to subtle hearing, the mind is a menace to wisdom, every organ of the senses is a menace to its own capacity.
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Capacity Clear Eyes Mindset Organ Wisdom
To regard the fundamental as the essence, to regard things as coarse, to regard accumulation as deficiency, and to dwell quietly alone with the spiritual and the intelligent – herein lie the techniques of Tao of the ancients.
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Alone Ancient Essence Fundamental Intelligence Quiet Spiritual Technique
Verily God does not reward man for what he does, but for what he is.
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God Himself Man Reward Work
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
To have a human form is a joyful thing.
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Form Human Joy
Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.
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Generous Greatness Passion Small Speech Wisdom
If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind.
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Calm Mindset Water
There is a beginning. There is no beginning of that beginning. There is something. There is nothing.
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Beginning Philosophy
When you are identified with the One, all things will be complete to you.
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Complete Identify Spirituality Yourself

The little child learns to speak, though it has no learned teachers – because it lives with those who know how to speak.

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