Tao Quotes - Page 3

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  Those who know do not talk. Those who talk do not know.

  Laozi

  Education, Tao Te Ching, Intelligence

  Laozi, Lao-Tzu, Stephen Addiss, Stanley Lombardo (2007). “Tao Te Ching”, p.55, Shambhala Publications

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• In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple.

  Laozi

  Simple, Thinking, Dwelling

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• Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Positivity, Intelligent

  Laozi, Archie J. Bahm (1996). “Tao Teh King”, p.57, Jain Publishing Company

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• Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Strength, Being Strong

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  Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

  Laozi

  Life, Change, Spiritual

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• If you understand others you are smart.
  If you understand yourself you are illuminated.
  If you overcome others you are powerful.
  If you overcome yourself you have strength.
  If you know how to be satisfied you are rich.
  If you can act with vigor, you have a will.
  If you don't lose your objectives you can be long-lasting.
  If you die without loss, you are eternal.

  Laozi

  Powerful, Smart, Loss

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• When you discard arrogance, complexity, and a few other things that get in the way, sooner or later you will discover that simple, childlike, and mysterious secret known to those of the Uncarved Block: Life is Fun.

  Benjamin Hoff

  Life, Fun, Block

  "The Tao of Pooh". Book by Benjamin Hoff, 1982.

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• A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Life, Summer

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• Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Selfish, Simple

  Tao-te Ching ch. 19 (translation byWing-Tsit Chan)

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• A great nation is like a great man:When he makes a mistake, he realizes it.Having realized it, he admits it.Having admitted it, he corrects it.He considers those who point out his faultsas his most benevolent teachers.He thinks of his enemyas the shadow that he himself casts.

  Laozi

  Teacher, Mistake, Men

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• He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.

  Laozi

  Reality, Generosity, Giving

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• Try to change it and you will ruin it. Try to hold it and you will lose it.

  Laozi

  Tao Te Ching, Trying, Ruins

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• The wise man is one who knows what he does not know.

  Laozi

  Wise, Men, Taoism

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• Close your mouth,
  block off your senses,
  blunt your sharpness,
  untie your knots,
  soften your glare,
  settle your dust.
  This is the primal identity.

  Laozi

  Block, Dust, Tao Te Ching

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• Hope and fear are both phantoms that arise from thinking of the self. When we don't see the self as self, what do we have to fear?

  Laozi

  Thinking, Self, Tao Te Ching

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• Through working in harmony with life's circumstances, Taoist understanding changes what others may percieve as negative into something positive.

  Benjamin Hoff

  Appreciation, Perspective, Understanding

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• The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth.

  Laozi

  Beauty, Beautiful, Truth

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• Observe how endings become beginnings.

  Laozi

  Tao Te Ching, Tao Ching, Tao Wisdom

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• You'd be surprised how many people violate this simple principle every day of their lives and try to fit square pegs into round holes, ignoring the clear reality that Things Are As They Are.

  Benjamin Hoff

  Simple, Reality, Squares

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• Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

  Mao Zedong

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• We are born male. We must learn to be men. Remember, strength is a force. It is an attribute of the heart. Its opposite is not weakness and fear, but confusion, lack of clarity, and lack of sound intention. If you are able to discern the path with heart and follow it even when at the moment it seems wrong, then and only then are you strong. Remember the words of Tao te ching. "The only true strength is a strength that people do not fear." Strength based in force is a strength people fear. Strength based in love is a strength people crave.

  Kent Nerburn

  Strong, Fear, Heart

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• The wise are not learned, the learned are not wise.

  Laozi

  Life, Wise, Learning

  Laozi, Lao-Tzu, Stephen Addiss, Stanley Lombardo (2007). “Tao Te Ching”, p.81, Shambhala Publications

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• Pooh is able to accomplish what he does because he is simpleminded.

  Benjamin Hoff

  Doe, Able, Accomplish

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• Because of a great love, one is courageous.

  Laozi

  Love, Anniversary, Taoism

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• If you want to be given everything, give everything up.

  Laozi

  Giving, Tao Te Ching, Taoism

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