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By exhaustively examining one’s own mind,one may understand his nature. One who understands his own nature understands Heaven.

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Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority.
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Character Friendship Men
If you let people follow their feelings, they will be able to do good. This is what is meant by saying that human nature is good.
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Deep Feeling Human People Philosophy Spiritual
The ways are two: love and want of love. That is all.
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Compassion Love
The way of learning is none other than finding the lost mind.
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Lost Mindset Way
The way of truth is like a great road. It is not difficult to know it. The evil is only that men will not seek it.
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Difficult Evil Men Seek
Only those who develop their minds and spirits to the utmost can serve Heaven and fulfill their own destinies.
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Destiny Development Heaven Mindset
When Heaven is about to confer a great office upon you, it first exercises your mind with suffering and your sinews and bones with toil.
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Greatness Heaven Suffering
When one by force subdues men, they do not submit to him in heart. They submit because their strength is not adequate to resist.
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Force Heart Men Power Resistance
If the King loves music, it is well with the land.
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King Land Music Rule
The great man is he who does not lose his child’s heart.
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Children Greatness Heart Man Wisdom
He who goes to the bottom of his own heart knows his own nature; And knowing his own nature, he knows heaven.
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Heart Heaven Philosophy
The gap between enthusiasm and indifference is filled with failures. The great man is he that does not lose his child’s heart.
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Children Failure Heart Men
The Tao is near and people seek it far away.
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Effort People Spiritual
Evil exists to glorify the good. Evil is negative good. It is a relative term. Evil can be transmuted into good. What is evil to one at one time, becomes good at another time to somebody else.
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Deep Evil Goodness Negative Perspective Philosophy Spiritual
Heaven sees as the people see. Heaven hears as the people hear.
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Equality Heaven People See
Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.
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Honesty Time Truth

By exhaustively examining one’s own mind,one may understand his nature. One who understands his own nature understands Heaven.

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