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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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Great knowledge sees all in one. Small knowledge breaks down into the many.
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Break Greatness Knowledge Oneself Small
Those who realise their folly are not true fools.
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Enemy Fools Mistake Realize
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
Standards are different for all things, so the standard set by man is by no means the only ‘certain’ standard. If you mistake what is relative for something certain, you have strayed far from the ultimate truth.
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Different Man Mistake Standard Truth Ultimate Yourself
Either in conflict with others or in harmony with them, we go through life like a runaway horse, unable to stop.
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Conflict Harmony Life Stop
One whose inner being is fixed upon such greatness emits a Heavenly glow. Even though he has this Heavenly glow, others will see him as just a man. Someone who has reached this point will begin to be consistent.
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Beginning Consistent Glow Greatness Heaven Point
The right way to go easy is to forget the right way.
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Easy Forget Journey Right Way
The little child learns to speak, though it has no learned teachers – because it lives with those who know how to speak.
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Children Deep Learning Live Talk Teacher
Great understanding is broad and unhurried; little understanding is cramped and busy.
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Broad Busy Calm Greatness Understand
Cherish that which is in you and shut out that which is without, for much knowledge is a curse.
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Cherish Curse Knowledge Yourself
Where can I find a man who has forgotten words, so I can have a few words with him?
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Finding Forget Man Myself Talk Word
Only the intelligent knows how to identify all things as one. When one is at ease with himself, one is near Tao. This is to let Nature take its own course.
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Flow Himself Identify Intelligence Nature Path Religion Whole
The perfect man uses his mind as a mirror. It grasps nothing. It regrets nothing. It receives but does not keep.
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Himself Mindset Mirror Perfection Regret
If you have insight, you use your inner eye, your inner ear, to pierce to the heart of things, and have no need of intellectual knowledge.
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Heart Insight Intellectual Knowledge Pierce
Let everything be allowed to do what it naturally does, so that its nature will be satisfied.
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Allow Natural Satisfaction Yourself
We possess our body by chance and we are already pleased with it. If our physical bodies went through ten thousand transformations without end, how incomparable would this joy be! Therefore the sage roams freely in the realm in which nothing can escape, but all endures.
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Body Chance Endurance Escape Freedom Joy Possession Sage Transformation World

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