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The enlightened attention rejects nothing nor welcomes anything-like a mirror it responds equally to all.

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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
When people do not ignore what they should ignore, but ignore what they should not ignore, this is known as ignorance.
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Ignorance People Philosophy
To be truly ignorant, be content with your own knowledge.
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Ignorance Knowledge True Yourself
He who knows the activities of Nature lives according to Nature.
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Activity Himself Live Nature
A path is made by walking on it.
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Inspirational Journey One Liner Path Walk
All men know the use of the useful, but nobody knows the use of the useless. Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so that I can have a word with him?
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Forget Himself Man Word
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
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
If the Way is made clear, it is not the Way.
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Journey Path Way
Your preciousness lies in your essence; it cannot be lost by anything that happens.
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Essence Lost Lying Precious Yourself
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
Luck implies an absolute absence of any principle.
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Absence Luck Principle
When the heart is right, “for” and “against” are forgotten.
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Forget Heart Right
Transmit the established facts; do not transmit words of exaggeration. If you do that, you will probably come out all right.
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Establishment Fact Right Word Yourself
Great understanding is broad and unhurried; little understanding is cramped and busy.
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Broad Busy Calm Greatness Understand
The effect of life in society is to complicate and confuse our existence, making us forget who we really are by causing us to become obsessed with what we are not.
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Complication Confusion Effect Existence Forget Life Obsession Ourselves Society

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