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Your mind must become one, do not try to understand with your ears but with your heart. Indeed, not with your heart but with your soul.

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The Way is to man as rivers and lakes are to fish, the natural condition of life.
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Condition Life Man Natural River Way
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
Each one’s destiny cannot be altered.
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Change Destiny One Liner Oneself
Right is not right; so is not so. If right were really right it would differ so clearly from not right that there would be no need for argument. If so were really so, it would differ so clearly from not so that there would be no need for argument.
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Argument Clear Difference Need Right
But you now, you wear your soul on your sleeve, exhausting your energy, propping yourself up on a tree, mumbling, or bent over your desk, asleep. Heaven gives you a form and you wear it out by pointless argument.
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Argument Energy Exhaust Form Heaven Point Soul Tree
Great knowledge sees all in one. Small knowledge breaks down into the many.
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Break Greatness Knowledge Oneself Small
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
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
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
The greatest tragedy that can befall a person is the atrophy of his mind.
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Greatness Mindset Person Tragedy
You cannot speak of ocean to a well-frog, the creature of a narrower sphere. You cannot speak of ice to a summer insect, the creature of a season.
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Creature Ocean Season Summer Talk Yourself
If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind.
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Calm Mindset Water
Those who realise their folly are not true fools.
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Enemy Fools Mistake Realize
Good order results spontaneously when things are let alone.
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Alone Goodness Result
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
People value that part of knowledge which is known. They do not know how to avail themselves of the Unknown in order to reach knowledge. Is this not misguided?
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Guide Knowledge Order People Reach Value

Your mind must become one, do not try to understand with your ears but with your heart. Indeed, not with your heart but with your soul.

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