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He continues: This is why sickness and death overtake you - because you become attached to what deceives and wounds you. Let the one with understanding understand.
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Matter brought forth a passion without true likeness, arising from what is contrary to its own order, and confusion entered the whole body.
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Therefore I told you: be steady within your heart. If you become divided or unsettled, return to steadiness before the changing forms of nature.
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Whoever has ears capable of hearing should hear.
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When the Blessed One had spoken these things, he greeted them all: Shalom be with you. Receive my shalom within yourselves.
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Guard yourselves so that no one deceives you by saying, 'Look here,' or, 'Look there.' For the Son of Humanity is within you.
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Follow after him. Those who truly seek will find.
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Go, then, and proclaim the good message of the Kingdom.