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Great understanding is broad and unhurried; little understanding is cramped and busy.

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True depth of understanding is wide and steady, Shallow understanding is lazy and wandering, Words of wisdom are precise and clear.
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Clear Precise Shallow True Understand Wisdom Word
He who regards all things as one is a companion of Nature.
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Himself Infinite Nature Oneself Regard Whole
Your preciousness lies in your essence; it cannot be lost by anything that happens.
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Essence Lost Lying Precious Yourself
The ultimate happiness is doing nothing.
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Happiness Philosophy Ultimate
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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Heart Mindset Soul Understand Yourself
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
The greatest tragedy that can befall a person is the atrophy of his mind.
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Greatness Mindset Person Tragedy
Heaven does without doing through its purity, Earth does without doing through its calmness.
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Calm Earth Heaven Purity
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
When the heart is right, “for” and “against” are forgotten.
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Forget Heart Right
Human life is limited, but knowledge is limitless. To drive the limited in pursuit of the limitless is fatal; and to presume that one really knows is fatal indeed!
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Death Drive Human Knowledge Life Limitation Oneself Pursuit
A sage steers by the bright light of confusion and doubt.
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Bright Confusion Doubt Light Sage
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
Each one’s destiny cannot be altered.
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Change Destiny One Liner Oneself
Forget the years, forget distinctions. Leap into the boundless and make it your home!
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Effort Forget Home Inspirational Stars
So if loss of what gives happiness causes you distress when it fades, you can now understand that such happiness is worthless. It is said, those who lose themselves in their desire for things also lose their innate nature by being vulgar.
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Desire Fade Happiness Loss Nature Vulgar Worth

Great understanding is broad and unhurried; little understanding is cramped and busy.

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