"Use the light that is in you to recover your natural clearness of sight"
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"Before healing others, heal yourself"
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"When people see some things as good, other things become bad."
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"Because every portion of the body, mind, and spirit yearns for the integration of yin and yang, angelic intercourse is led by the spirit rather than the sexual organs. . . . Where ordinary intercourse unites sex organs with sex organs, angelic cultivation unites spirit with spirit, mind with mind, and every cell of one body with every cell of the other body."
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"When you stand with your two feet on the ground, you will always keep your balance."
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"Be still like a mountain and flow like a great river."
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"Can you step back from your own mind and thus understand all things?"
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"No weapon is sharper than will."
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"When nothing is done, nothing is left undone."
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"I do not act, and people become reformed by themselves."
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"The fourth (of the four cardinal virtues) is supportiveness: this manifests as service to others without expectation of reward. (Paraphrased: Such service is not a mere conforming to some external rule of behavior, but instead a manifestation of your original nature)."
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"Hold on to the ancient Way to master the present, and to learn the distant beginning."
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"Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like."
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"When there is no desire, all things are at peace"
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"Just as the value of a house lies in its location, The value of a mind lies in its depth, The value of giving lies in the presence of a generous spirit, The value of words lies in their reliability."
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"He who stands on tiptoe does not stand firm."
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"When you realize where you come from, you naturally become tolerant, amused, kindhearted as a grandmother, and dignified as a king. Immersed in wonder, you can deal with whatever life brings you, and when death comes, you are ready."
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"A good athlete can enter a state of body-awareness in which the right stroke or the right movement happens by itself, effortlessly, without any interference of the conscious will. This is a paradigm for non-action: the purest and most effective form of action. The game plays the game; the poem writes the poem; we can't tell the dancer from the dance. It happens when we trust the intelligence of the universe in the same way that an athlete or a dancer trusts the superior intelligence of the body."
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"Seeing the small is called clarity."
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"Covetousness is the greatest misfortune. One who does not know what is enough will never have enough."
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