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Verily God does not reward man for what he does, but for what he is.

Zhuangzi

When I talk about having good hearing, I don’t mean just listening, but listening to yourself. When I talk about good eyesight, I don’t mean just looking, but looking at yourself.
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Eyes Goodness Hearing Listening Myself Sight Talk
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
Heaven is in everything: follow the light, hide in the cloudiness and begin in what is. Do this and your understanding will be like not understanding and your wisdom will be like not being wise. By not being wise you will become wise later.
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Cloud Follow Heaven Light Understand Wisdom Yourself
Do not struggle. Go with the flow of things, and you will find yourself at one with the mysterious unity of the Universe.
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Flow Spiritual Struggle Universe Yourself
The enlightened attention rejects nothing nor welcomes anything-like a mirror it responds equally to all.
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Attention Enlightenment Equality Mirror Respond Welcome
A petty thief is put in jail. A great brigand becomes a ruler of a Nation.
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Greatness Nation Prison Rule
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 creature born is the creature dying.
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Born Creature Death
Great understanding is broad and unhurried; little understanding is cramped and busy.
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Broad Busy Calm Greatness Understand
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
The right way to go easy is to forget the right way.
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Easy Forget Journey Right Way
Easy is right. Begin right and you are easy. Continue easy and you are right. The right way to go easy is to forget the right way, and forget that the going is easy.
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Beginning Easy Forget Right Yourself
I am going to try speaking some reckless words, and I want you to try to listen recklessly.
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Listening Reckless Talk Try Word Yourself
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
Compare birth with death, compare death with life; compare what is possible with what is not possible and compare what is not possible with what is possible; because there is, there is not, and because there is not, there is.
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Born Compare Death Life Possible
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

Verily God does not reward man for what he does, but for what he is.

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Verily God does not reward man for what he does, but for what he is.

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