"How do I become still? By flowing with the stream."
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"Develop the strength of a man, but live as gently as a woman"
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"Pride attaches undue importance to the superiority of one's status in the eyes of others; and shame is fear of humiliation at one's inferior status in the estimation of others. When one sets one's heart on being highly esteemed, and achieves such rating, then he or she is automatically involved in fear of losing status."
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"In work, do what you enjoy."
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"The river and the sea can be kings of a hundred valleys, because they lie below them."
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"Those who flow as life flows know they need no other force."
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"When one gives whatever one can without restraint, the barriers of individuality break down. It no longer becomes possible to tell whether it is the student offering himself to the teacher, or the teacher offering herself to the student. One sees only two immaculate beings, reflecting one another like a pair of brilliant mirrors."
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"The sense organs, which are limited in scope and ability, randomly gather information. This partial information is arranged into judgments, which are based on previous judgments, which are usually based on someone else's foolish ideas. These false concepts and ideas are then stored in a highly selective memory system."
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"When wisdom and knowledge appear, great pretense arises."
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"If good happens, good; if bad happens, good."
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"Because he (the Sage) opposes no one, no one in the world can oppose him."
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"The good man is the teacher of the bad, And the bad is the material from which the good may learn. He who does not value the teacher, Or greatly care for the material, Is greatly deluded although he may be learned. Such is the essential mystery."
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"If you wish to be out front, then act as if you were behind."
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"Reputation should be neither sought nor avoided."
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"Freedom from desire leads to inner peace."
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"First and last follow each other."
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"One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him."
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"Make the small big and the few many."
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"Conquering others requires force. Conquering oneself requires strength"
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"Empty your mind of all thoughts."
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