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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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Let everything be allowed to do what it naturally does, so that its nature will be satisfied.
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Allow Natural Satisfaction 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
Birth is not the beginning, Death is not the end.
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Beginning Born Death End
Perfect happiness is the absence of striving for happiness.
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Absence Happiness Perfection Wisdom
Do not let the artificial obliterate the natural; do not let will obliterate destiny; do not let virtue be sacrificed to fame.
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Artificial Destiny Fame Natural Sacrifice Virtue
People value that part of knowledge which is known. They do not know how to avail themselves of the Unknown in order to reach knowledge. Is this not misguided?
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Guide Knowledge Order People Reach Value
A path is made by walking on it.
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Inspirational Journey One Liner Path Walk
There is danger for the eye in seeing too clearly, danger for the ear in hearing too sharply and danger to the heart from caring too greatly.
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Clear Dangerous Eyes Greatness Heart Sharp
Heaven does without doing through its purity, Earth does without doing through its calmness.
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Calm Earth Heaven Purity
The World is Large – Its beauty indescrible.
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Beautiful Description Nature World
The men of old breathed clear down to their heels.
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Breathe Clear Man Old
A sage steers by the bright light of confusion and doubt.
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Bright Confusion Doubt Light Sage
When an archer shoots for enjoyment, he has all his skill; when he shoots for a brass buckle, he gets nervous; when he shoots for a prize of gold, he begins to see two targets.
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Beginning Enjoyment Himself Nervous Skill Target
When you are identified with the One, all things will be complete to you.
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Complete Identify Spirituality Yourself
Take care of your body, then the rest will automatically become stronger.
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Automatic Body Care Strong Willing
We possess our body by chance and we are already pleased with it. If our physical bodies went through ten thousand transformations without end, how incomparable would this joy be! Therefore the sage roams freely in the realm in which nothing can escape, but all endures.
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Body Chance Endurance Escape Freedom Joy Possession Sage Transformation World

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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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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