Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.
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Accept disgrace willingly... Accept being unimportant... Surrender yourself humbly then you can be trusted to care for all things. Love the world as your own self then you can truly care for all things.
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