Your name or your body, what is dearer? Your body or your wealth, what is worthier?
Although most people spend their entire lives following this biological impulse (i.e. the sex drive), it is only a tiny portion of our beings. . . . If we remain obsessed with seeds and eggs, we are married to the fertile reproductive valley of the Mysterious Mother but not to her immeasurable heart and all-knowing mind.
The wise are not learned, the learned are not wise.
The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
When you stand with your two feet on the ground, you will always keep your balance.
The sage does not act and therefore does not fail, does not seize and therefore does not lose.
Clay is moulded to make a vessel, but the utility of the vessel lies in the space where there is nothing. . . . Thus, taking advantage of what is, we recognize the utility of what is not.
To have enough of enough is always enough.
Knowing constancy, the mind is open. With an open mind, you will be openhearted. Being openhearted you will act royally. Being royal, you will attain the divine. Being divine, you will be at one with the Tao. Being at one with the Tao is eternal. Though the body dies, the Tao will never pass away.
But in the present day men cast off gentleness, and are all for being bold; they spurn frugality, and retain only extravagance; they discard humility, and aim only at being first. Therefore they shall surely perish.
Yielding is the way of the Tao.
Those who act will fail. Those who seize will lose.
Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.
Do nondoing, strive for non-stiving, savor the flavourless, make much of little, repay enmity with virture; plan for difficulty when it is still easy, do the great while it is still small.
The one who does not stray away from her/his nature will live long.
The more prohibitions you have, the less virtuous people will be. Try to make people moral, and you lay the groundwork for vice.
Distortion upon distortion: . . . the more one uses the mind, the more confused one becomes.
Having reached a high level of realization (or having accomplished anything in life), don't get excited or puffed up with pride but remain calm, humble, and in "perfect equanimity" if you want to continue in this deep state of consciousness.
Understand this if nothing else: spiritual freedom and oneness with the Tao are not randomly bestowed gifts, but the rewards of conscious self-transformation and self-evolution.
Simple, like uncarved wood.
The Tao is unpredictable to those that live according to plans. Only those who have no agenda are in harmony with the Tao.
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.
When nothing is done, nothing is left undone.
Return animosity with virtue.
When you have accomplished your goal simply walk away. This is the path way to Heaven.
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