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Perfect happiness is the absence of striving for happiness.

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To be constant is to be useful. To be useful is to realize one’s true nature. Realization of one’s true nature is happiness. When one reaches happiness, one is close to perfection.
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Constant Happiness Nature Oneself Perfection Realize
Take care of your body, then the rest will automatically become stronger.
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Automatic Body Care Strong Willing
Breathing control gives man strength, vitality, inspiration, and magic powers.
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Breathe Control Inspirational Magic Meditation Power Strength
We are born from a quiet sleep, and we die to a calm awakening
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Awake Born Calm Death Quiet Sleep
Your preciousness lies in your essence; it cannot be lost by anything that happens.
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Essence Lost Lying Precious Yourself
A sage steers by the bright light of confusion and doubt.
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Bright Confusion Doubt Light Sage
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
You are still guided by your expectations.
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Expectation Guide Yourself
To have a human form is a joyful thing.
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Form Human Joy
Birth is not the beginning, Death is not the end.
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Beginning Born Death End
To go outside what your charge was, and to try to solve everything yourself, is dangerous.
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Charge Dangerous Solution Yourself
If you have grasped the purpose of life there is no point in trying to make life into something it is not or cannot be.
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Life Point Purpose
When the heart is right, “for” and “against” are forgotten.
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Forget Heart Right
Men of this world all rejoice in others being like themselves, and object to others not being like themselves.
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Acceptance Man Object Reality Rejoice Tolerance World
If the Way is made clear, it is not the Way.
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Journey Path Way
People value that part of knowledge which is known. They do not know how to avail themselves of the Unknown in order to reach knowledge. Is this not misguided?
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Guide Knowledge Order People Reach Value

Perfect happiness is the absence of striving for happiness.

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