"Goodness in words creates trust, goodness in thinking creates depth, goodness in giving creates love."
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"Kind words elicit trust. Kind thoughts create depth. Kind deeds bring love."
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"A good person is the bad person's teacher. A bad person is the good person's task."
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"If you realize that you have enough, you are truly rich."
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"Live simply and virtuously, true to your nature, drawing no line between what is spiritual and what is not."
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"I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men."
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"Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt. Chase after money and security and your heart will never unclench. Care about people's approval and you will be their prisoner. Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity."
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"At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want."
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"He who knows how to be aggressive, and yet remains patient, becomes a receptacle for all of Nature's lessons."
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"Clay is used to make vases, but it is the emptiness they contain that makes them useful."
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"Be still. Stillness reveals the secrets of eternity"
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"The eye with which you see God is the same eye with which God sees you; one in seeing; one in knowing; one in loving."
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"If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading."
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"You cannot know the body by studying the finger, and you cannot understand the universe by learning one science."
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"Stop thinking, and end your problems. What difference between yes and no? What difference between success and failure? Must you value what others value, avoid what others avoid? How ridiculous!"
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"He who has achieved this state Is unconcerned with friends and enemies, With good and harm, with honor and disgrace. This therefore is the highest state of man."
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"Open yourself to the truth, then trust in your natural responses, and everything will fall into place."
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"The mystical techniques for achieving immortality are revealed only to those who have dissolved all ties to the gross worldly realm of duality, conflict, and dogma. As long as your shallow worldly ambitions exist, the door will not open."
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"We are all capable of much more than we think we are."
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"There are many paths to enlightenment. Be sure to take the one with a heart."
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