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Happiness perches on misery. Misery crouches beneath happiness.

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The ego is entranced by … names and ideas… However names and concepts only block your perception of this Great Oneness. Therefore it is wise to ignore them. Those who live inside their egos are continually bewildered.
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Block Concept Name Perception Wise
The more prohibitions you have, the less virtuous people will be. Try to make people moral, and you lay the groundwork for vice.
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Heart Matter People Trying Vice
Rule your mind with serenity rather than with force and manipulation.
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Manipulation Mind Serenity Taoism
No disaster is worse than being discontented.
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Disaster Tao Taoism
Make your heart like a lake, with calm, still surface, and great depths of kindness.
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Depth Heart Inspirational Kindness
When the intelligent and animal souls are held together in one embrace, they can be kept from separating.
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Animal Intelligent Separate Soul
Keep behind, and you shall be put in front; keep out, and you shall be kept in.
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Behind Compassion Humility
If there is to be peace in the home, There must be peace in the heart.
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Heart Home Nature Peace
Become totally empty Quiet the restlessness of the mind Only then will you witness everything unfolding from emptiness
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Emptiness Inspirational Mind
Heavy is the root of light.
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heavy Light Root Taoism
Good words shall gain you honor in the marketplace, but good deeds shall gain you friends among men.
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Deed Honor Marketplace Men
The flame that burns Twice as bright burns half as long.
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Flame Inspirational Long Philosophy
The more weapons of violence, the more misery to mankind. The triumph of violence ends in a festival of mourning.
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Mourn Triumph Weapon
To rejoice in conquest is to rejoice in murder.
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Conquest Murder Rejoice
The transformation toward eternal life is gradual. The heavy gross energy of body, mind, and spirit must first be purified and uplifted. When the energy ascends… then self mastery can be sought.
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Energy Mind Purify Self
Softness triumphs over hardness, feebleness over strength. What is more malleable is always superior over that which is immoveable. This is the principle of controlling things by going along with them, of mastery through adaptation.
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Mastery Principles Superior Triumph

Happiness perches on misery. Misery crouches beneath happiness.

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