[696]
To better set or calibrate anything,
first reset and re-calibrate yourself.
[697]
Unless amplifying your message,
why let your high volume
overwhelm your voice?
[698]
When you care for others sincerely
others will care for you naturally.
[699]
If things cannot get any worse,
things can only get even better.
Even the very worst situations
can offer very good conditions.
[700]
That seemingly interrelated is
almost always more or less
interdependent than
perceived or imagined.
[701]
What we truly seek
is to be loving and to be loved;
not to possess lovers or love.
[702]
The difference between
finally failing and striving on
is whether you rise one more time
after the previous ‘failure’.
[703]
Two types of persons keep trying –
the realistically determined and
the unrealistically foolish.
[704]
Speak less of the meaningless
to hear more of the meaningful.
[705]
Make no old mistakes;
make only new mistakes,
till you make no mistakes.
[706]
The rule is to only follow good rules,
or you will be ruled over by bad rules.
[707]
Truly loved or not,
there is no true love
than being truly loving.
[708]
Merely thinking it is difficult
without learning and trying
only makes it more difficult.
[709]
If the spiritual does not check the worldly,
the spiritual gets corrupted by the worldly.
[710]
Knowing you are wrong
is not enough;
you should admit the wrong.
Saying you are wrong
is not enough;
you should make it right.
[711]
Why only help some humans,
while eating many animals?
Why only not eat all animals,
while not helping some humans?
[712]
General learning is easier
compared with asking,
which leads to deeper learning.
General teaching is easier
compared with answering,
which leads to deeper teaching.
[713]
To reflect well on the past,
do so in the present,
without getting lost in the past.
To plan well for the future,
do so in the present,
without getting lost in the future.
[714]
The ultimate meaning of ‘follow the leader’
is to follow by learning from the worthy,
on how to become a good, if not better leader;
not to merely blindly follow any leader.
[715]
It is not good to only follow rules.
It is good to follow only good rules.