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We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.

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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
Breathing control gives man strength, vitality, inspiration, and magic powers.
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Breathe Control Inspirational Magic Meditation Power Strength
Life is finite, While knowledge is infinite.
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Infinite Knowledge Life
A sage steers by the bright light of confusion and doubt.
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Bright Confusion Doubt Light Sage
If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror of the universe, the speculum of all creation.
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Calm Creation Mindset Mirror Universe Water
We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.
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Gradual Opinion Ourselves Perspective Point View
If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind.
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Calm Mindset Water
When there is no more separation between ‘this’ and ‘that,’ it is called the still-point of the Tao. At the still point in the center of the circle one can see the infinite in all things.
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Infinite Point Religious Separate Sight View Yourself
Great knowledge is universal. Small knowledge is limited. Great words are inspiring; small words are chatter.
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Greatness Inspirational Knowledge Limitation Literature Poet Small Universe Value
Fish live in water. Men die in it. Nature is diverse, and not all tastes are the same.
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Death Deep Diversity Live Men Nature Taste Water
Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.
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Education Form Low Punishment Reward
Verily God does not reward man for what he does, but for what he is.
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God Himself Man Reward Work
Luck implies an absolute absence of any principle.
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Absence Luck Principle
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
A frog in a well cannot conceive of the ocean.
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Deep Ocean One Liner
The perfect man employs his mind as a mirror.
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Employment Himself Man Mindset Mirror Perfection

We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.

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We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.

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