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Emotion Can Be The Enemy, If You Give Into Your Emotion, You Lose Yourself. You Must Be At One With Your Emotion, Because The Body Always Follows The Mind.

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Emotion Can Be The Enemy, If You Give Into Your Emotion, You Lose Yourself. You Must Be At One With Your Emotion, Because The Body Always Follows The Mind.

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You Cannot Force The Now. — But Can You Neither Condemn Nor Justify And Yet Be Extraordinarily Alive As You Walk On? You Can Never Invite The Wind, But You Must Leave The Window Open.

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The Essence Of Fighting Is The Art Of Moving At The Right Time.

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Have No Rigid System In You, And You'll Be Flexible To Change With The Ever Changing.

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Get Maximum Effect From Minimum Effort.

Taoist Philosophy Is Essentially Monistic. Matter And Energy, Yang And Yin, Heaven And Earth, Are Conceived Of As Essentially One Or As Two Coexistent Poles Of One Indivisible Whole.

The Deluded Mind Is The Mind Affectively Burdened By Intellect. Thus, It Cannot Move Without Stopping And Reflecting On Itself. This Obstructs Its Native Fluidity.

I Have The Absolute Confidence Not To Be Number Two, But Then I Have Enough Sense To Realize That There Can Be No Number One.

Do Not Pray For An Easy Life, Pray For The Strength To Endure A Difficult One

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Success Only Means Doing Something Sincerely And Wholeheartedly. I Think Life Is A Process. Through The Ages, The End Of Heroes Is The Same As Ordinary Men. They All Died And Gradually Faded Away In The Memory Of Man. But When We Are Still Alive, We Have To Understand Ourselves, Discover Ourselves And Express Ourselves. In This Way, We Can Progress, But We May Not Be Successful.

The Point Is The Doing Of Them Rather Than The Accomplishments . There Is No Actor But The Action; There Is No Experiencer But The Experience.

Don't Be Forecasting Evil Unless It Is What You Can Guard Against. Anxiety Is Good For Nothing If We Can't Turn It Into A Defense.

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Use Only That Which Works, And Take It From Any Place You Can Find It.

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