To become learned, each day add something. To become enlightened, each day drop something
See others as yourself. See families as your family. See towns as your town. See countries as your country. See worlds as your world.
To know one's ignorance is the best part of knowledge.
What people loathe the most is to be orphaned, desolate, unworthy. But this is what princes and kings call themselves.
True perfection seems imperfect, yet it is perfectly itself. True fullness seems empty, yet it is fully present. True straightness seems crooked. True wisdom seems foolish. True art seems artless. The Master allows things to happen. She shapes events as they come. She steps out of the way and lets the Tao speak for itself.
. . . the mind is desperate to fix the river {of events} in place: Possessed by ideas of the past, preoccupied with images of the future, it overlooks the plain truth of the moment.
Those who flow as life flows know they need no other force.
Stretch the bow to the very full, and you will wish you had stopped in time.
Give evil nothing to oppose and it will disappear by itself.
Love the whole world as if it were your self; then you will truly care for all things.
Truly, only those who see illness as illness can avoid illness.
Close your mouth, block off your senses, blunt your sharpness, untie your knots, soften your glare, settle your dust. This is the primal identity.
Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.
Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
Can you deal with the most vital matters by letting events take their course? Can you step back from you own mind and thus understand all things? Giving birth and nourishing, having without possessing, acting with no expectations, leading and not trying to control: this is the supreme virtue.
If you can let go of (the Tao) with your mind and surround it with your heart, it will live inside you forever.
The eternal void is filled with infinite possibilities
Without the tao, Kindness and compassion are replaced by law and justice; Faith and trust are supplanted by ritual and ceremony.
Creating without claiming, Doing without taking credit, Guiding without interfering, This is Primal Virtue.
My words are very easy to understand and very easy to practice; but there is no one in the world who is able to understand and practice them.
The most difficult in the world must be easy in its beginning.
The usefulness of a pot comes from its emptiness.
Seeing the small is called clarity.
Learn to lead in a nourishing manner. Learn to lead without being possessive. Learn to be helpful without taking the credit. Learn to lead without coercion.
The river and the sea can be kings of a hundred valleys, because they lie below them.
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