Laozi Quotes - Page 18

• Though tightly the net of words forms, how surely truth slips out.

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  Thinking, Form, Slips

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• Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.

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  Inspirational, Men, Enemy

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• The Tao gives birth to One. One gives birth to yin and yang. Yin and yang give birth to all things... The complete whole is the complete whole. So also is any part the complete whole... But forget about understanding and harmonizing and making all things one. The universe is already a harmonious oneness; just realize it.

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  Oneness, Giving, Understanding

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• The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world. Through this I know the advantage of taking no action.

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  Acting, Overcoming, World

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• Highest good is like water. Because water excels in benefiting the myriad creatures without contending with them and settles where none would like to be, it comes closest to the way.

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  Love, Water, Way

  Laozi, D. C. Lau (1989). “Tao Te Ching”, p.11, Chinese University Press

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• Intellectual knowledge exists in and of the brain. Because the brain is part of the body, which must one day expire, this collection of facts, however large and impressive, will expire as well. {But spiritual insight transcends death.}

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  Spiritual, Intellectual, Brain

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• 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.

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  Simplicity, Enmity, Littles

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• With virtue and quietness one may conquer the world.

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  Peace, Power, Conquer The World

  Laozi (1905). “The Simple Way”

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• If there is to be peace in the home, There must be peace in the heart.

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  Peace, Home, Heart

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• The way of heaven is to help and not harm.

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  Heaven, Taoism, Way

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• The one who does not stray away from her/his nature will live long.

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  Long, Doe

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• Your name or your body, what is dearer? Your body or your wealth, what is worthier?

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  Names, Taoism, Body

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• He who has achieved this state Is unconcerned with friends and enemies, With good and harm, with honor and disgrace. This therefore is the highest state of man.

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  Friendship, Men, Honor

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

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• The best athlete wants his opponent at his best. The best general enters the mind of his enemy. The best businessman serves the communal good. The best leader follows the will of the people. All of the embody the virtue of non-competition. Not that they don't love to compete, but they do it in the spirit of play. In this they are like children and in harmony with the Tao.

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  Children, Athlete, Play

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• Pride attaches undue importance to the superiority of one's status in the eyes of others; and shame is fear of humiliation at one's inferior status in the estimation of others. When one sets one's heart on being highly esteemed, and achieves such rating, then he or she is automatically involved in fear of losing status.

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  Heart, Eye, Pride

  "Tao Teh King". Translated by Archie J. Bahm, 1996.

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• Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

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  Darkness Within, Understanding, Tao Te Ching

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• If people live in constant fear of death, and if breaking the law is punished by death, then who would dare?

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  Law, People, Taoism

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• Simplicity has no name is free of desires. Being free of desires it is tranquil. And the world will be at peace of it's own accord.

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  Names, Simplicity, Being Free

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• Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity.

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  Serenity, Path, Steps

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• Do not imagine that an integral being has the ambition of enlightening the unaware or raising worldly people to the divine realm. To her, there is no self and other, and hence no one to be raised; no heaven and hell, and hence no destination.

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  Ambition, Self, People

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• The great Way is very straight, but people prefer to deviate.

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  People, Taoism, Way

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• No thought, no action, no movement, total stillness: only thus can one manifest the true nature and law of things from within and unconsciously, and at last become one with heaven and earth.

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  Law, Meditation, Heaven

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• Governing a large country is like frying a small fish. You spoil it with too much poking. Center your country in the Tao and evil will have no power. Not that it isn't there, but you'll be able to step out of its way. Give evil nothing to oppose and it will disappear by itself.

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  Leadership, Country, Evil

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• By following this simple path, you become extraordinary, unfathomable, a being of profound cosmic subtlety. You outlive time and space by realizing the subtle truth of the universe.

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  Time, Truth, Simple

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

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• Can you deal with the most vital matters by letting events take their course? Can you step back from you own mind and thus understand all things? Giving birth and nourishing, having without possessing, acting with no expectations, leading and not trying to control: this is the supreme virtue.

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  Change, Giving, Expectations

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