Laozi Quotes - Page 16

• Knowing the future is the flower of the Way, and the beginning of folly.

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  Flower, Knowing, Taoism

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• Seeing the small is called Clarity.
  Keeping flexible is called Strength.
  Using the shining Radiance,
  You enter the Light,
  Where no harm can come to you.
  This is called Enlightenment.

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  Strength, Light, Shining

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• Deal with the small before it becomes large.

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  Deals

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• The sage knows without traveling, perceives without looking, completes without acting.

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  Taoism, Acting, Sage

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• Everything will settle in its own place automatically.

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  Settling

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• The great Way is all-pervading. It reaches to the left and to the right. All things depend on it with their existence. Still it demands no obedience.

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  Taoism, Demand, Way

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• The mature person perceives the fruitlessness of rigid, external methodologies.

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  Mature Person, Methodology, Perceive

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

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• I confess that there is nothing to teach: no religion, no science, no writings which will lead your mind back to Spirit. Today I speak this way, tomorrow that, but always the Path is beyond words and beyond mind.

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  Life Lesson, Writing, Deep Life

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• The fourth (of the four cardinal virtues) is supportiveness: this manifests as service to others without expectation of reward. (Paraphrased: Such service is not a mere conforming to some external rule of behavior, but instead a manifestation of your original nature).

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  Nature, Expectations, Four

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• What honor can there be without humility? What heights can be reached without being low? The pieces of a chariot are useless unless the work in accordance with the whole A man's life brings nothing unless he lives in accordance with the whole universe Playing one's part in accordance with the universe is true humility So whether you're a gem in the royal court or a stone on the common path If you accept your part with humility the glory of the universe will be yours

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  Life, Humility, Men

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• Letting the mind control the vital breath is called force.

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  Mind, Taoism, Force

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• The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest.

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  Flower, Careers, Two

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• The new life created by the final integration is self-aware yet without ego, capable of inhabiting a body yet not attached to it, and guided by wisdom rather than emotion. Whole and virtuous, it can never die.

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  Life, Self, Ego

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

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• Nothing in the world is as soft and yielding as water. Yet for dissolving the hard and inflexible, nothing can surpass it. The soft overcomes the hard; the gentle overcomes the rigid. Everyone knows this is true, but few can put it into practice. Therefore the Master remains serene in the midst of sorrow. Evil cannot enter his heart. Because he has given up helping, he is people's greatest help. True words seem paradoxical.

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  Strength, Truth, Heart

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• Without desire there is stillness, and the world settles by itself.

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  Taoism, Desire, World

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• To know how little one knows is to have genuine knowledge. Not to know how little one knows is to be deluded. Only those who know when they are deluded can free themselves from such delusion. The intelligent people are not deluded, because they know and accept their ignorance as ignorance, and thereby have genuine knowledge.

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  Ignorance, Knowledge, Intelligent

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• I alone have the mind of a fool, and am all muddled and vague. The people are so smart and bright. While I am just dull and confused.

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  Confused, Smart, People

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• In dwelling, live close to the ground.
  In thinking, keep to the simple.
  In conflict, be fair and generous.
  In governing, don't try to control.
  In work, do what you enjoy.
  In family life, be completely present.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Family

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• 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.

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  Mother, Sex, Heart

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• To have enough of enough is always enough.

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  Taoism, Enough

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• If you can let go of (the Tao) with your mind and surround it with your heart, it will live inside you forever.

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  Letting Go, Heart, Forever

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

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• To produce things and to rear them,
  To produce, but not to take possession of them,
  To act, but not to rely on one's own ability,
  To lead them, but not to master them -
  This is called profound and secret virtue.

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  Happiness, Character, Profound

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• All things carry yin and embrace yang. They reach harmony by blending with the vital breath.

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  Taoism, Yang, Harmony

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• The wise trusts not only to his physical eyes - thus he can see clearly.

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  Wise, Philosophy, Eye

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• When there is no desire, all things are at peace

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  Inspirational, Tao Te Ching, Taoism

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