The wise are not learned, the learned are not wise.
Your name or your body, what is dearer? Your body or your wealth, what is worthier?
The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
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.
When you stand with your two feet on the ground, you will always keep your balance.
To have enough of enough is always enough.
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.
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.
The sage does not act and therefore does not fail, does not seize and therefore does not lose.
The usefulness of a pot comes from its emptiness.
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.
Those who act will fail. Those who seize will lose.
Yielding is the way of the Tao.
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.
Going forward seems like retreat.
Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.
. . . learn to value what is important today in the subtle realm rather than what appears desirable tomorrow in the worldly realm.
Distortion upon distortion: . . . the more one uses the mind, the more confused one becomes.
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.
If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.
Covetousness is the greatest misfortune. One who does not know what is enough will never have enough.
Realize thy Simple Self, Embrace thy Original Nature.
For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.
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.
The Tao is unpredictable to those that live according to plans. Only those who have no agenda are in harmony with the Tao.
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