Laozi Quotes - Page 13

• Quarrel with a friend - and you are both wrong.

  Laozi

  Friendship, Quarrels

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• Harmony is called the eternal. Knowing the eternal is called clarity.

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  Knowing, Taoism, Clarity

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• For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.

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  Wise, Wisdom, Business

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• A violent wind does not outlast the morning; a squall of rain does not outlast the day. Such is the course of Nature. And if Nature herself cannot sustain her efforts long, how much less can man!

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  Morning, Rain, Persistence

  "Tao Te Ching". Chapter 3 as translated by Lionel Giles,

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• My own words are not the medicine, but a prescription; not the destination, but a map to help you reach it. When you get there, quiet your mind and close your mouth. Don't analyze the Tao. Strive instead to live it: silently, undividedly, with your whole harmonious being.

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  Medicine, Mind, Taoism

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

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• Peace is our natural state of being.

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  Natural, States

  Laozi (2005). “Tao te ching: a new translation & commentary”

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• Things flourish, then each returns to its root. Returning to the root is called stillness: Stillness is called return to life, return to life is called the constant; knowing the constant is called enlightenment.

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  Spiritual, Roots, Knowing

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• There is no need to run outside for better seeing... Rather abide at the center of your being; For the more you leave it the less you learn. Search your heart and see... The way to do is to be.

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  Running, Art, Learning

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• The reason why rivers and seas are able to be lords over a hundred mountain streams, is that they know how to keep below them. That is why they are able to reign over all the mountain streams.

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  Humility, Sea, Rivers

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• Watch your thoughts, they become words.

  Laozi

  Motivational, Determination, Smart

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• Worlds and particles, bodies and beings, time and space: All are transient expressions of the Tao.

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  Time, Expression, Space

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

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• See others as yourself. See families as your family. See towns as your town. See countries as your country. See worlds as your world.

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  Country, Compassion, Taoism

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• The master understands that the universe is forever out of control

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  Forever, Masters, Universe

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• The softest of stuff in the world, penetrates quickly the hardest, insubstantial, it enters where there is no room.

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  Breathing, World, Stuff

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• A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants. A good scientist has freed himself of concepts and keeps his mind open to what is.

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  Change, Artist, Intuition

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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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• The value comes from what is there, but the use comes from what is not there.

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  Taoism, Use, Values

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• When life begins we are tender and weak When life ends we are stiff and rigid All things, including the grass and trees, are soft and pliable in life and dry in brittle in death So the soft and supple are the companion of life While the stiff and unyielding are the companions of death An army that cannot yield will be defeated A tree that cannot bend will crack in the wind Thus by Nature's own decree the hard and strong are defeated while the soft and gentle are triumphant

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  Life, Strong, Army

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• When everyone in the world sees beauty, then ugly exists.

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  Taoism, World, Ugly

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• The moment truth is asserted, it becomes false.

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  Moments, Truth Is

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• Instead of being afraid of death, we should try to awake to life; and the only death we should escape from is to forget the presence of God into us.

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  Trying, Forget, Should

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• Always without desire we must be found, If its deep mystery we would sound; But if desire always within us be, Its outer fringe is all that we shall see.

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  Wise, Wisdom, Desire

  Laozi, Philip J. Ivanhoe (2003). “The Daodejing of Laozi”, p.102, Hackett Publishing

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• Some help others in order to receive blessings and admiration. This is simply meaningless. Some cultivate themselves in part to serve others, in part to serve their own pride. They will understand, at best, half of the truth. But those who improve themselves for the sake of the world - to these, the whole truth of the universe will be revealed.

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  Pride, Blessing, Helping Others

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• Without opening your door, you can open your heart to the world. Without looking out your window, you can see the essence of the Tao. The more you know, the less you understand. The Master arrives without leaving, sees the light without looking, achieves without doing a thing.

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  Heart, Light, Doors

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• Distortion upon distortion: . . . the more one uses the mind, the more confused one becomes.

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  Confused, Confusion, Confusing

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

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