"Those who are self-righteous are not prominent."
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"Returning to the source is stillness, which is the way of nature. The way of nature is unchanging. Knowing constancy is insight."
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"How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?"
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"To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty."
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"My words are very easy to understand and very easy to practice; but there is no one in the world who is able to understand and practice them."
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"He who regards the world as he does the fortune of his own body can govern the world. He who loves the world as he does his own body can be entrusted with the world."
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"The real key to health and happiness and success is self knowledge"
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"Creating without claiming, Doing without taking credit, Guiding without interfering, This is Primal Virtue."
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"The moment truth is asserted, it becomes false."
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"The wise man puts himself last and finds himself first."
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"If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you aren't afraid of dying, there is nothing you can't achieve. Trying to control the future is like trying to take the master carpenter's place. When you handle the master carpenter's tools, chances are that you'll cut your hand."
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"He who hoards much loses much."
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"Knowledge studies others, wisdom is self known."
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"If there is to be peace in the home, There must be peace in the heart."
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"Always without desire we must be found, If its deep mystery we would sound; But if desire always within us be, Its outer fringe is all that we shall see."
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"Remember: if you can cease all restless activity, your integral nature will appear."
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"Once you arrive {at a spontaneous awareness of the Great Oneness}, remember: it isn't necessary to struggle to maintain unity with it. All you have to do is participate in it."
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"If people are not afraid of dying, why threaten them with death?"
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"Silence is a source of great strenght."
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"The purest white seems stained."
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