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151. People may skillfully hide their own faults, but they are quite adept at ferreting out others' flaws—scrutinizing, even prodding them to the surface. Most of those who appear saintly are nothing but hypocritical devils!
152. If you are habitually forthright, you might try an experiment sometime. It will help you recognize the true faces of certain people. One day, try speaking with great humility, in gentle tones, and see what happens! You'll find that some people will take your humility for weakness and begin attacking you at will! There are very few true gentlemen in this country—most people simply don't deserve courtesy! To keep yourself safe, you must sometimes display a bit of fake arrogance! I've seen many genuinely humble people forced to behave with great hauteur. Generally, people respect fear more than love.
153. However much people may say that inner beauty is the greatest beauty, when it comes to choosing brides, they still consider external beauty the primary virtue—just like potatoes, pointed gourds, and tomatoes.
154. When irregularity becomes the rule, trying to change that irregular rule creates many more irregularities. It's better, rather, to carry on by accepting that irregular rule.
155. Sometimes the sun sets in broad daylight, before evening arrives. Those afternoons become very long. But at the end of such afternoons, the sunlight blazes most brilliantly! If you know how to wait until you see that light, it feels wonderful when it comes!
156. Telling elaborate lies requires the greatest talent of all. It's a tremendous art. People in high positions as well as those without any position regularly practice this art.
157. There's a vast difference between "finding fault" and "pointing out mistakes." Critics find fault to expose flaws, while well-wishers point out mistakes to help correct them. When someone speaks about your mistakes, observe carefully—what is their real intention? To diminish you while showing themselves off? Or to show you your error and give you a chance to improve? You needn't hesitate for even a second to kick the first type of person out of your life.
158. If blood and semen are the very sources of life, then how can these two sources of life be impure? The feeling of purity and impurity arises entirely from belief and experience.
159. The Creator never separately created Hindus, Muslims, Buddhists, or Christians—He created human beings. We ourselves have created these religious distinctions. If following another religion would have been beneficial for someone, the Creator would have sent them to a home of that faith. Yet those who presume to improve upon God by asking others to convert—who could be more foolish and irreligious than they! If the Creator knows everything, then surely He also knows how each person will live their life and where they will go after death! If we believe in the Creator's existence, then who are we to speak or give opinions about such matters?
160. Some people are happy when they themselves are happy and others are simultaneously unhappy. Such people are happy very rarely. Among them are some who don't mind not being particularly happy themselves, but they must see others in misery! They're even willing to sacrifice some happiness from their own lives to destroy others' joy! There's no shortage of people who don't feel too bad about their own child's poor results when all their acquaintances' children have also done badly!
161. Your behavior with subordinates is your true identity. How you act with someone you don't need to treat well—that's what matters. Who doesn't show humility to their boss? That involves only compulsion, not identity. If you weren't in that job, what would be wrong with calling your boss "brother" instead of "sir"? Nobody calls the person "sir"—they address the chair. So you can't truly know someone's real character through their office behavior.
162. You can know a person much better when they lose than when they win. Victory binds a person's feet with many kinds of shackles, but defeat makes them freer than before. Then it becomes easier to understand their true nature. It's easier to recognize the face of someone who has lost than someone who has won.
163. For any work in which you want to succeed, it's more important to know exactly why others have failed in that work than to know how others have succeeded—so you can very consciously avoid those pitfalls. But it's also important to remember that the very path on which one person succeeded might lead another to complete failure. There's no universal formula for success. Different people reach their destination by walking different paths.
164. What success teaches you, failure will teach you ten times more. People move forward successfully in life mainly by building upon their failures.
165. If there were no religious prohibition against suicide, many people in the world would not be alive. There's no denying this beauty of religion. People don't commit suicide because they don't want to live—they commit suicide because they want to live but cannot.
166. People spend the best years of their childhood, adolescence, and youth on studies. They waste the remaining time fulfilling the duty of making others happy. The very people for whom they sacrifice their own happiness are the first to misunderstand them! People live unhappily because they cannot spend time for themselves, in their own way.
167. If you are right, there's no need for explanation. If you are wrong, explanation has no meaning. For this reason, unless absolutely necessary, never explain yourself to anyone to whom you are not obligated to give explanations.
168. Crying must be done alone. Such solitary tears make a person mentally stronger. Crying before someone you're not completely sure about means arranging to put yourself in danger.
169. If you laughed at what someone said, it means you like them. If you cried at their words, it means you love them. People shed tears even thinking about those they love! Not all tears come from pain—the most beautiful tears in the world come from love.
170. The day you realize you no longer love anyone, or despite wanting to very much, you cannot love—that means, however young you may be, mental old age has descended upon you. There's no greater helplessness than being unable to feel love for anyone.
171. People love listeners more than speakers, yet everyone wants to be a speaker! If we want everyone to listen to us, then why do we assume they don't want the same thing we do?
172. If everyone's parents in the world are honest, kind, and excellent good people, then whose parents are committing all the sin, injustice, and wrongdoing in the world?
173. A single deep silence creates far more clamor than hundreds of sharp screams. Where there isn't a single letter, there sits the vast fair of words!
174. In the world, everyone except this one "I" is bad! Being able to think this way is quite an achievement! One can live even with such mental illness!
175. Most of the time, when money enters a relationship, the relationship is destroyed. With someone with whom maintaining a good relationship is important, you never have to keep a single financial account. Many good relationships are ruined because of money. It's very difficult to maintain relationships with those who lack financial transparency.
176. To know what would make you happy, first conquer your loneliness. A person who is alone and unhappy is either unhappy because of loneliness, or unhappy for a reason that requires freeing oneself from loneliness first to discover. Loneliness blinds people so much that they can no longer easily see even very simple things.
177. The happiness of each phase of life is completely different. So to taste life fully, you must first learn to accept each moment exactly as it is. No judgment works here, no calculations of right and wrong work. Life as it is, just as it is... to the very end!
178. Those who don't carry themselves along are always helpless in every situation. People want to carry the entire world's population with them, yet forget to keep themselves with themselves. What's the use of gaining the whole world if you lose yourself?
179. When problems are created entirely by my own actions, seeking their solutions from others is foolishness. Most people simply enjoy listening to others' problems. Let's remember that virtually no one in this world is affected by my personal problems. If they too are involved in my problem, that's different. But if not, then truly, even my death wouldn't affect them. The same would apply if I were in their place. Nobody gives quality time for free or without reason. What you get from those who do give it can't really be called "quality time."
180. Men love to keep their beloved fooled. Women love to remain foolish before their beloved even while understanding everything. This victory actually belongs to love, though both parties think in their hearts: I won!
181. Sometimes certain past experiences and circumstances will force you to be cruel. For someone whose life hasn't followed a straight path, cruelty is easy and natural. If you haven't taken as many blows and kicks in your life as I have, please don't come to lecture me about life. I am a master of the senior classes in a school whose junior classes you've never even sat in!
182. For some matters in the world, the only solution is: "This has no solution"—which you must accept without wasting words! For problems that have no solution, or whose solutions would cost you something very important from life, the more you search for answers, the more time you'll waste and suffering you'll increase. Nothing in this world is indispensable, so what's the point of going crazy over one issue?
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Money has no power to determine the value of human emotions! So never make the mistake of revealing your emotions to those who measure people by money's measure. Some people are such destitute wanderers that they possess nothing beyond a single coin. Never venture near such people with the treasure of your emotions—if you do, you will suffer greatly.
184. The more invaluable something is, the greater the price one must pay to win it. Therefore, there is no benefit in saying or thinking: "I am struggling so much while others sleep—why should I work so hard, why should I silently endure such torment?" If you want more, you must give more; no one can escape this law.
185. Becoming the person you wish to be, as much as possible, is absolutely essential. For someone who does not like who they are, it becomes extremely difficult to live for themselves or to respect themselves. Those who love their work and position find life bearable and beautiful.
186. Those who say "time doesn't pass" must be assumed to have no work they truly love or care for in their lives. If they did, they could easily spend much of their time on such work. Creative people never have enough time! Even when sitting idle, they suffer from a kind of guilt, thinking they could have been creating something during those moments.
187. One should master propriety before gaining personal freedom, otherwise personal freedom can invite danger. What is propriety? It is expressing oneself in such a way that one can carry that style oneself, and knowing how to carry it regardless of how others might receive it.
188. We are actually preparing ourselves to adapt to even greater sufferings. The meaning of happiness is learning to endure suffering. Sorrow never truly diminishes; only our capacity to adapt increases. When you learn to accept and adapt, even suffering feels like happiness. In this consideration, both happiness and suffering are relative. What is happiness to me might be suffering to you.
189. Our courage is our greatest qualification; our fear and doubt are our greatest weaknesses. Nothing happens to what or whom we fear; nothing happens to what or whom we doubt. Meanwhile, we only lose mental strength and harm ourselves.
190. I have no headache about what answers I should give you. It is myself I fear most! I am willing to bow my head before the entire world if it means keeping my head high before myself. For me, victory means winning before myself. I have no objection to accepting whatever defeats I must endure for this purpose.
191. Imbalance destroys the beauty of everything. What can be obtained simply by reaching out should not always be taken by reaching out. What cannot be obtained even by reaching out should not require sacrificing everything to try to grasp it. In both cases, one might have to pay an extreme price.
192. Many have a strong desire to help others but lack the ability. Many have adequate ability to help others but lack the desire. To truly help, both the ability and desire to help are necessary. However, most people claim to be praying for others' welfare instead of actually helping them. This is relatively easier to do, and if one doesn't do it, there's no way to prove it—making it safe as well.
193. The less one expects from others, the greater one's capacity to love others. Love that demands expectations is as much calculation as it is love. One who loves does so because loving feels good to them. The one being loved might not find it pleasant to love in return—isn't that so? Love is not a business where one must receive in exchange for giving!
194. Good people have an innate tendency to nag in the ears of bad people. This is why good people quickly become irritating. Most of the world's charming and popular personalities are actually bad as human beings.
195. Behind the externally hardest hearts often lies the softest heart. People become hard because life forces them to. There is no shortage of people ready to crush the soft-hearted.
196. Until you learn to be mischievous, you must endure mischief. There are precious few people who value goodness. Almost all petty people think everyone else is as petty as they are, and from such thinking they continuously act petty. Whether you are petty or not, if you show too much humility to petty people, you'll spend your entire life enduring pettiness.
197. First, they will silently plant the seeds of their own culture in ours, then grow into trees and establish their cultural dominance among us. We too will one day become accustomed to losing our own culture. Then we'll see that even though we've gone blind, we're quite happy just being able to walk with the support of a stick!
198. If I don't keep my dirty clothes in front of my eyes, I forget they need to be sent for washing—just like everything else!
199. Expressing oneself weakly before others is equivalent to dishonoring oneself. However, if such weak expression is part of an act that helps one win or stay well, then such weakness is merely another name for strength. There are many people in this world with sick mentalities who find joy in seeing others express themselves weakly. If there's something to be gained from such people, what's wrong with such a successful performance of weakness?
200. People make wrong decisions due to lack of maturity. The decisions they make after making mistakes are actually correct! That's where real truth emerges. The greatest advantage of making a big mistake early in life is that you can comfortably spend the middle and end of your life dealing only with small mistakes.