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Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.

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A battering ram can knock down a city wall, but it cannot stop a hole. Different things have different uses.
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Different Power Stop Wall
Only fools imagine they are already awake. How clearly they understand everything! How easily they distinguish this deception from that reality!
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Awake Easy Fools Imagination Reality Understand
Perfect happiness is the absence of striving for happiness.
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Absence Happiness Perfection Wisdom
Sound intelligence promises victory in every battle.
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Battle Intelligence Promise Sound Victory
You are still guided by your expectations.
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Expectation Guide Yourself
Men do not mirror themselves in running water – they mirror themselves in still water. Only what is still can still the stillness of other things.
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Deep Man Mirror Run Water
The eyes envy the mind.
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Eyes Jealous Mindset
Life is finite, While knowledge is infinite.
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Infinite Knowledge Life
Those who follow the Tao are of clear mind. They do not load their mind with anxieties and are flexible in their adjustment to external conditions.
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Anxiety Condition Follow Mindset Religious
The true man breathes with his heels.
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Breathe Heel Man One Liner Philosophy True
Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.
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Earth Life Nature Return
A frog in a well cannot conceive of the ocean.
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Deep Ocean One Liner
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
To be truly ignorant, be content with your own knowledge.
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Ignorance Knowledge True Yourself
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
The knowledge of the ancients reached the highest point-the time before anything existed. This is the highest point. It is exhaustive. There is no adding to it.
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Ancient Existence Knowledge Point Reach Time

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