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		1 - Charity beyond wisdom, wisdom beyond intelligence.
		2 - Focus on Process, rather than Accomplishment. Abandon material goals and pay attention to how you are doing things. The magical irony of success is that material success actually results from abandonment of material goals. Abandonment of material goals is done in favor of concentration on the process. Process is determined by style and strategy, which arise from one's philosophy. Goals emanate from one's philosophy.
		3 - The path of doing leads to the nowhere that is endless doing without dreaming.
		4 - It is the appreciation of things from which real, inner, happiness stems.
		5 - I really perceive the importance of planning rather than doing. I have been off in the wrong direction my whole life, I am sure of it. Now the question is how to get on the right way. I think consistent daily application of the mind is key to an endeavor.
		6 - The world is big, and there are many more things in it than one can ever simultaneously comprehend. Therefore, one's despair should never be too deep, for it would be based on very limited information.
		7 - Society spends so much energy worrying about Loss of Economic Growth, because they associate this with increased standard of living. Why don't they ask themselves, "What kind of Growth?" Doesn't it depend on what industry is growing or shrinking?
		8 - Choose an activity that will galvanize the solutions to all of your problems.
		9 - I stood in front of the Buddha in the temple, and I wished that this year I would find 'the secret to unleashing potential'. As easily as I had asked the question, the thought came back (from the Buddha?): Ask yourself why not? [That is, ask yourself why potential would not (underscore) be unleashed; what would prevent potential from being unleashed? What would block it?] I found the obvious simplicity and profoundness of the answer to so large a question interesting. The gong was being struck by one of the visitors, in rhythmic regularity, filling this moment with a special significance. It was the first day of the new year.
		12 - Helping even one person can be like helping yourself twenty times over.
		13 - Perfection is a matter of order.
		14 - The probability that things will end up the way they are is zero.
		15 - Real potentials only exist when an event is near fruition.
		16 - Steerage an bring a real potential to fruition.
		17 - If you know someone is using you, or lying to you or cheating on you, and if you still love them the same for who they are, this is a type of unconditional love. This kind of perspective is freedom from dependence on other's actions for our happiness.
		18 - Real love cannot be lost.
		19 - One should never feel badly about people not recognizing their talents. Think of it this way: the most wonderful thing in the world has never been discovered; otherwise people would be enlightened and happy; and yet this thing is probably right under their noses.
		20 - Environment, it seems, is the single answer to the best mode of living. A system is only as good as the environment in which it is used.
		21 - Defining a problem precisely enough makes the solution to the problem clearly visible.
		22 - Organized religion is veiled politics.

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