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Are you and I perchance caught up in a dream from which we have not yet awakened?

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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
Each one’s destiny cannot be altered.
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Change Destiny One Liner Oneself
The true man breathes with his heels.
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Breathe Heel Man One Liner Philosophy True
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
Take care of your body, then the rest will automatically become stronger.
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Automatic Body Care Strong Willing
The living all find death unpleasant; men mourn over it. And yet, what is death, but the unbending of the bow and its return to its case?
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Case Death Finding Live Pleasant Return
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
The sound of water says what I think.
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Myself Sound Thinking Water
Verily God does not reward man for what he does, but for what he is.
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God Himself Man Reward Work
Sound intelligence promises victory in every battle.
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Battle Intelligence Promise Sound Victory
He who knows he is a fool is not the biggest fool; He who knows he is confused is not in the worst confusion.
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Aware Confusion Fools Worst
We are born from a quiet sleep, and we die to a calm awakening
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Awake Born Calm Death Quiet Sleep
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
Heaven does without doing through its purity, Earth does without doing through its calmness.
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Calm Earth Heaven Purity
Your preciousness lies in your essence; it cannot be lost by anything that happens.
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Essence Lost Lying Precious Yourself
He who knows the activities of Nature lives according to Nature.
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Activity Himself Live Nature

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