Laozi Quotes - Page 34

• How can a man's life keep it's course If he will not let it flow, Those who flow as life flows know They need no other force: They feel no wear, they feel no tear, They need no mending, no repair.

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  Spiritual, Men, Tears

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• Can you be still and look inside?If so, then you know the truth is always available, and always responsive.

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  Looks, Spirituality, Truth Is

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• Attending fully and becoming supple, Can you be as a newborn babe?

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  Becoming, Tao, Newborn

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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• It is better not to make merit a matter of reward Lest people conspire and contend.

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  People, Rewards, Matter

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• Can you care for the people and rule the country and not be cunning?

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  Country, People, Taoism

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• Whoever is capable of knowing when they have had enough will always be satisfied.

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  Knowing, Satisfaction, Had Enough

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• When the world is ruled according to the Way, the ghosts lose their power. The ghosts do not really lose their power, but it is not used to harm people.

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  People, Taoism, World

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• If you want to become full, let yourself be empty.

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  Tao Te Ching, Taoism, Want

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• Complete your task. Seek no reward. Make no claims. Without faltering fully choose to do what you must do.

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  Tasks, Rewards, Claims

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• Good men are bad men's instructors, And bad men are good men's materials.

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  Men, Evil, Good Man

  Laozi (1959). “Tao Tê Ching: A New Translation”

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• The best form of leadership is to be conscious of the leadership potential with the followers and to let them unleash this potential in a spontaneous way. When a great leader accomplishes this task with effortless ease, the followers say, "We did it ourselves."

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  Leader, Tasks, Followers

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• When Simplicity is broken up, it is made into instruments. Evolved individuals who employ them, are made into leaders. In this way, the Great System is United.

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  Broken, Simplicity, Leader

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• Therefore, if a great kingdom humbles itself before a small kingdom, it shall make that small kingdom its prize. And if a small kingdom humbles itself before a great kingdom, it shall win over that great kingdom. Thus the one humbles itself in order to attain, the other attains because it is humble. If the great kingdom has no further desire than to bring men together and to nourish them, the small kingdom will have no further desire than to enter the service of the other. But in order that both may have their desire, the great one must learn humility.

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  Humble, Humility, Winning

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• Virtue in its grandest aspect is neither more nor less than following reason.

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  Virtue, Reason, Aspect

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• When the great Tao is abandoned, benevolence and righteousness arise.

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  Taoism, Abandoned, Arise

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• A tree that can fill the span of a man's arms grows from a downy tip; A terrace nine stories high rises from level earth; A journey of a thousand miles starts from beneath one's feet.

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  Journey, Men, Feet

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• Clay is molded to form a cup, But it is on its non-being that the utility of the cup depends. Doors and windows are cut out to make a room, But it is on its non-being that the utility of the room depends. Therefore turn being into advantage, and turn non-being into utility.

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  Cutting, Doors, Clay

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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. Thus the Master is available to all people and doesn't reject anyone. He is ready to use all situations and doesn't waste anything. This is called embodying the light. What is a good man but a bad man's teacher? What is a bad man but a good man's job? If you don't understand this, you will get lost, however intelligent you are. It is the great secret.

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  Teacher, Jobs, Men

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• Those who know don't talk. Those who talk don't know. Close your mouth, block off your senses, blunt your sharpness, untie your knots, soften your glare, settle your dust. This is the primal identity. Be like the Tao. It can't be approached or withdrawn from, benefited or harmed, honored or brought into disgrace. It gives itself up continually. That is why it endures.

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  Block, Dust, Giving

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• If you want to be given everything, give everything up.

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  Giving, Tao Te Ching, Taoism

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• The scholar gains every day; the man of Tao loses every day.

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  Men, Gains, Tao

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• Thus it is that "Some things are increased by being diminished, others are diminished by being increased." What others have taught, I also teach; verily, I will make it the root of my teaching.

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  Teaching, Humility, Roots

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• The way to use life is to do nothing through acting, The way to use life is to do everything through being.

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  Life, Acting, Use

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• Abandon learning and there will be no sorrow.

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  Learning, Sorrow, Abandon

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• What should be shrunken must first be stretched.

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  Taoism, Firsts, Should

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