Laozi Quotes - Page 10

• Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.

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  Strong, Power, Water

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• When people see some things as beautiful, other things become ugly. When people see some things as good, other things become bad. Being and non-being create each other. Difficult and easy support each other. Long and short define each other. High and low depend on each other. Before and after follow each other. Therefore the Master acts without doing anything and teaches without saying anything. Things arise and she lets them come; things disappear and she lets them go. She has but doesn't possess, acts but doesn't expect. When her work is done, she forgets it. That is why it lasts forever.

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  Beauty, Beautiful, Difficult And Easy

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• The ancients said: Hulk to be whole.

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  Taoism, Said, Whole

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• The ego is entranced by ... names and ideas... However names and concepts only block your perception of this Great Oneness. Therefore it is wise to ignore them. Those who live inside their egos are continually bewildered.

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  Wise, Block, Names

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• What is and what is not create each other.

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  Taoism

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

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  Tao Te Ching, Trying, Ruins

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• If you scramble about in search of inner peace, you will lose your inner peace.

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  Inner Peace, Taoism, Ifs

  Laozi, Brian Browne Walker (1992). “Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu”

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• Not all spiritual paths lead to the harmonious Oneness. Indeed, most are detours and distractions, nothing more.

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  Spiritual, Oneness, Detours

  Laozi, Brian Browne Walker (1992). “Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu”

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• Give up your relentless moralizing, the continual pinpricks which pierce the skin of your fellows. The distinction between good and evil is the sickness of the mind. Give up your morals, and the people will regain a love of their fellows.

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  Love, Giving Up, People

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• Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.

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  Love, Wisdom, Passion

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• The more clever and cunning people are, the stranger the events will be.

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  Clever, Knowledge, People

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• Live simply and virtuously, true to your nature, drawing no line between what is spiritual and what is not.

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  Spiritual, Drawing, Lines

  Laozi, Brian Browne Walker (1992). “Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu”

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• All things of the world are born of being; being is born of nonbeing.

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  Taoism, World, Born

  "Daodejing: A Literal-critical Translation".

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• The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, Having bestowed all he has on others, he has yet more; having given all he has to others, he is richer still.

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  Helping Others, Generosity, Doe

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• The more laws that are written, the more criminals are produced.

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  Law, Taoism, Criminals

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• I do not act, and people become reformed by themselves.

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  People, Taoism

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• Be who you are, and go the whole way.

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  Be Who You Are, Way, Whole

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• Look, and it can't be seen.
  Listen, and it can't be heard.
  Reach, and it can't be grasped.
  
  Above, it isn't bright.
  Below, it isn't dark.
  Seamless, unnamable,
  it returns to the realm of nothing.
  Form that includes all forms,
  image without an image,
  subtle, beyond all conception.
  
  Approach it and there is no beginning;
  follow it and there is no end.
  You can't know it, but you can be it,
  at ease in your own life.
  Just realize where you come from:
  this is the essence of wisdom.

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  Life, Dark, Essence

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• He who steals a hook shall be hanged; while he who steals the state shall be crowned as prince.

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  Hook, Stealing, States

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• Empty yourself of everything.
  Let the mind become still.
  The ten thousand things rise and fall while the Self watches their return.
  They grow and flourish and then return to the source.
  Returning to the source is stillness, which is the way of nature.

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  Nature, Fall, Animal

  Laozi, Gia-fu Feng, Jane English (1972). “Tao te ching”, Random House Inc

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• Other people are occupied, I alone am unwilling, like the outcast.

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  Compassion, People, Taoism

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• The words of truth are always paradoxical. To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.

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  Mind, Surrender, Paradoxical

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• All streams flow to the sea because it is lower than they are. Humility gives it its power. If you want to govern the people, you must place yourself below them. If you want to lead the people, you must learn how to follow them. The Master is above the people, and no one feels oppressed. She goes ahead of the people, and no one feels manipulated. The whole world is grateful to her. Because she competes with no one, no one can compete with her.

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  Leadership, Grateful, Humility

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• The world is ruled by letting things take their course. It cannot be ruled by interfering.

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  Letting Go, World, Courses

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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• Stop thinking, and end your problems. What difference between yes and no? What difference between success and failure? Must you value what others value, avoid what others avoid? How ridiculous!

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  Thinking, Differences, Yes And No

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