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Your eye is a lamp, lighting up your whole body. If you live wide-eyed in wonder and belief, your body fills up with light. If you live squinty-eyed in greed and distrust, your body is a dank cellar.
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Keep your eyes open, your lamp burning, so you don't get musty and murky.
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