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The sole concern of learning is to seek one’s original heart.

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The Tao is near and people seek it far away.
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Effort People Spiritual
The best things in life come in threes, like friends, dreams, and memories.
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Dream Friendship Life Material Memories
Sincerity is the way to heaven.
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Heaven Sincere
He who loves others is constantly loved by them. He who respects others is constantly respected by them.
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Himself Love Respect
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
To act without clear understanding, to form habits without investigation, to follow a path all one’s life without knowing where it really leads; such is the behavior of the multitude.
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Act Ignorance Leadership Life Understand
He who loves others is always loved by them, and he who respects others is always respected by them.
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Love Reaction Respect Treat
Try your best to treat others as you would wish to be treated yourself, and you will find that this is the shortest way to benevolence.
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Inspirational Yourself
Never lose your child’s heart.
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Children Heart One Liner
In abundance prepare for scarcity.
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Abundance Money One Liner Scarcity
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 disease of men is that they neglect their own fields and go to weed the fields of others.
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Avoid Destroy Hate Man
To lay hold of the mean without taking into account the occasion is like grasping one thing only.
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Oneself Understand
The path of duty lies in what is near, and men seek for it in what is remote; the work of duty lies in what is easy, and men seek for it in what is difficult.
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Easy Journey Lying Men Philosophy Seek Way
He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man.
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Leadership Men Spirituality
A real man is he whose goodness is a part of himself.
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Goodness Man Reality

The sole concern of learning is to seek one’s original heart.

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