Exploring the Path - Pāli Course

Perceiving the nonessential as essential, what is essential they regard as dispensable,
Thus attached to the wrong kind of thoughts they will never realize the essence.
Perceiving the essential as essential, what is nonessential they regard as dispensable,
Thus attached to the right kind of thoughts they will realize the essence.

^*Yamakavaggo: Yamaka + vaggo: pair, twin + section, chapter. The section is so called as it presents twin-verses.