Laozi Quotes - Page 17

• What is a good man but a bad man's teacher? What is a bad man but a good man's job? If you do not remember this, You will get lost, No matter how intelligent you are. It is the great secret.

  Laozi

  Teacher, Jobs, Intelligent

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• Going forward seems like retreat.

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  Retreat, Seems, Tao Te Ching Leadership

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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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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• Good words shall gain you honor in the marketplace, but good deeds shall gain you friends among men.

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  Men, Honor, Deeds

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• Use your own light and return to the source of light. This is called practicing eternity.

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  Light, Use, Return

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• All things issue from it; all things return to it. To find the origin, trace back the manifestations. When you recognize the children and find the mother, you will be free of sorrow. If you close your mind in judgements and traffic with desires, your heart will be troubled. If you keep your mind from judging and aren't led by the senses, your heart will find peace. Seeing into darkness is clarity. Knowing how to yield is strength. Use your own light and return to the source of light. This is called practicing eternity.

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  Mother, Children, Heart

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• The highest virtue does nothing. Yet, nothing needs to be done. The lowest virtue does everything. Yet, much remains to be done.

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  Taoism, Doe, Needs

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• . . . These are notions of the mind, which is like a knife, always chipping away at the Tao, trying to render it graspable and manageable. But that which is beyond form is ungraspable, and that which is beyond knowing is unmanageable. There is, however, this consolation: She who lets go of the knife will find the Tao at her fingertips.

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  Letting Go, Knowing, Knives

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

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• 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.

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  Heart, Knowing, Mind

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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• When two opposing sides meet in battle, the one without an enemy will be victorious.

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  Two, Enemy, Battle

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

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• Approach your own inner life with a loving quality that accepts who you are without trying to change who you are.

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  Taoism, Trying, Quality

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• When one gives whatever one can without restraint, the barriers of individuality break down. It no longer becomes possible to tell whether it is the student offering himself to the teacher, or the teacher offering herself to the student. One sees only two immaculate beings, reflecting one another like a pair of brilliant mirrors.

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  Teacher, Two, Mirrors

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• Take time to listen to what is said without words, to obey the law too subtle to be written, to worship the unnameable and to embrace the unformed.

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  Time, Law, Listening

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• The highest virtue is not virtuous. Therefore it has virtue. The lowest virtue holds on to virtue. Therefore it has no virtue.

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  Taoism, Virtue, Virtuous

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• A vessel is formed from a lump of clay with care, however, it is the empty space within the vessel that makes it useful.

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  Space, Clay, Care

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• Those who are one with deprivation are deprived of deprivation.

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  Taoism, Deprivation, Deprived

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• True perfection seems imperfect,
  yet it is perfectly itself.
  True fullness seems empty,
  yet it is fully present.
  True straightness seems crooked.
  True wisdom seems foolish.
  True art seems artless.
  The Master allows things to happen.
  She shapes events as they come.
  She steps out of the way
  and lets the Tao speak for itself.

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  Art, Perfection, Way

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• Be truly whole, and all things will return to you.

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  Return, Awareness, All Things

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• To bear and not to own; to act and not lay claim; to do the work and let it go: for just letting it go is what makes it stay.

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  Let It Go, Bears, Claims

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• When you find the way/ others will find you./ Passing by on the road/ they will be drawn to your door./ The way that cannot be heard/ will be echoed in your voice./ The way that cannot be seen/ will be reflected in your eyes.

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  Inspirational, Eye, Doors

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• Without law or compulsion, men would dwell in harmony.

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  Peace, Men, Law

  Laozi (1997). “Tao Te Ching”, p.33, Wordsworth Editions

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• Those who are content suffer no disgrace.

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  Suffering, Taoism, Disgrace

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• What is well planted will not be uprooted.

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  Taoism, Wells

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• Conquering others takes force, conquering yourself is true strength.

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  Strength, Conquer, Force

  Laozi, Lao-Tzu, Stephen Addiss, Stanley Lombardo (2007). “Tao Te Ching”, p.33, Shambhala Publications

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