Laozi quotes - page 10

Why not simply honor your parents, love your children, help your brothers and sisters, be faithful to your friends, care for your mate with devotion, complete your work cooperatively and joyfully, assume responsibility for problems, practice virtue without first demanding it of others, understand the highest truths yet retain an ordinary manner That would be true clarity, true simplicity, true mastery. (Laozi)
Worlds and particles, bodies and beings, time and space All are transient expressions of the Tao. View quote
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Take time to listen to what is said without words, to obey the law too subtle to be written, to worship the unnameable and to embrace the unformed. View quote
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He who knows how to be aggressive, and yet remains patient, becomes a receptacle for all of Nature's lessons. View quote
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He who gains a victory over other men is strong but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful. View quote
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How can one liberate the many By first liberating his own being. He does this not by elevating himself, but by lowering himself. He lowers himself to that which is simple, modest, true integrating it into himself, he becomes a master of simplicity, modesty, truth. View quote
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Don't imagine that you'll discover the truth by accumulating more knowledge. Knowledge creates doubt, and doubt makes you ravenous for more knowledge. You can't get full eating this way. View quote
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He who possess virtue in abundance may be compared to an infant. View quote
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Can you dissolve your ego Can you abandon the idea of self and other Can you relinquish the notions of male and female, short and long, life and death Can you let go of all these dualities and embrace the Tao without skepticism or panic If so, you can reach the heart of the Integral Oneness. View quote
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A good calculator does not need artificial aids. View quote
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For one gains by losing And loses by gaining. (Laozi)
There are three layers to the universe. In the lower, Tai Ching, and the middle, Shan Ching, the hindrance of a physical bodily existence is required. Those who fail to live consistently in accord with the Tao reside here. In the upper, Yu Ching, there is only Tao the bondage of form is broken, and the only thing existing is the exquisite energy dance of the immortal divine beings. View quote
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Why is the sea king of a hundred streams Because it lies below them... If the sage would guide the people, he must serve with humility. If he would lead them, he must follow behind. In this way when the sage rules, the people will not feel oppressed... View quote
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When the effective leader is finished with his work, the people say it happened naturally. View quote
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The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth. View quote
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The wise man is one who, knows, what he does not know. View quote
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To understand the limitation of things, desire them. View quote
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What is firmly rooted cannot be pulled out. View quote
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If you try to change it, you will ruin it. Try to hold it, and you will lose it. View quote
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A vessel is formed from a lump of clay with care, however, it is the empty space within the vessel that makes it useful. View quote
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If you go searching for the Great Creator, you will come back empty-handed. The source of the universe is ultimately unknowable, a great invisible river flowing forever through a vast and fertile valley. Silent and uncreated, it creates all things. (Laozi)
If your virtue is especially radiant, it can be possible to open a pathway to the subtle realm and receive these celestial teachings directly from the immortals. View quote
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... These are notions of the mind, which is like a knife, always chipping away at the Tao, trying to render it graspable and manageable. But that which is beyond form is ungraspable, and that which is beyond knowing is unmanageable. There is, however, this consolation She who lets go of the knife will find the Tao at her fingertips. View quote
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Practice non-action. Work without doing. View quote
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The truth often sounds paradoxical. View quote
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