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  "text": "\"Why is everyone here so happy except me?\"\n\n\"Because they have learned to see goodness and beauty everywhere,\" said the Master.\n\n\"Why don't I see goodness and beauty everywhere?\"\n\n\"Because you cannot see outside of you what you fail to see inside.\"",
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      "text": "The Master insisted that what he taught was nothing, what he did was nothing.\n\nHis disciples gradually discovered that Wisdom comes to those who learn nothing, unlearn everything.\n\nThat transformation is the consequence not of something done, but of something dropped.",
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