Laozi Quotes - Page 36

• The Master doesn't seek fulfillment. For only those who are not full are able to be used which brings the feeling of completeness.

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  Feelings, Taoism, Able

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• Who can rest until the moment of action?

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  Taoism, Action, Moments

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• The heavy is the root of the light. The unmoved is the source of all movement. Thus the Master travels all day without leaving home. However splendid the views, she stays serenely in herself. Why should the lord of the country flit about like a fool? If you let yourself be blown to and fro, you lose touch with your root. If you let restlessness move you, you lose touch with who you are.

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  Country, Moving, Home

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• Clay is used to make vases, but it is the emptiness they contain that makes them useful.

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  Clay, Vases, Emptiness

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• Is not the space between Heaven and Earth like a bellows? It is empty, but lacks nothing. The more it moves, the more comes out of it.

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  Moving, Space, Heaven

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• Gently eliminating all obstacles to his own understanding, he constantly maintains his unconditional sincerity. His humility, perseverance, and adaptability evoke the response of the universe and fill him with divine light.

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  Perseverance, Humility, Light

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

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• Why did the ancients praise the Way? Did they not say it was because you find what you seek and are saved from your wrongdoings?

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  Taoism, Way, Praise

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• A brave and passionate man will kill or be killed.
  A brave and calm man will always preserve life.
  Of these two which is good and which is harmful?

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  Men, Two, Brave

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

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• The master does his job and then stops. He understands that the universe is forever out of control, and that trying to dominate events goes against the current of the Tao.

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  Letting Go, Jobs, Forever

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• The liberation cannot be reached but by means of the perception of the identity of the individual spirit with the universal spirit.

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  Mean, Perception, Identity

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• One's own self or material goods, which has more worth?
  Loss (of self) or possession (of goods), which is the greater evil?
  He who loves most, spends most,
  He who hoards much loses much

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  Uplifting, Loss, Self

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• The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.

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  Helping Others, Giving, Heaven

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• Take care of what is difficult while it is still easy, and deal with what will become big while it is yet small.

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  Care, Easy, Bigs

  Laozi, Archie J. Bahm (1996). “Tao Teh King”, p.57, Jain Publishing Company

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• Ever desireless, one can see the mystery. Ever desiring, one can see the manifestations. These two spring from the same source but differ in name; this appears as darkness. Darkness within darkness. The gate to all mystery.

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  Spring, Names, Darkness Within

  Laozi, Philip J. Ivanhoe (2003). “The Daodejing of Laozi”, p.106, Hackett Publishing

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• People take death lightly. They expect too much of life. That is why people take death lightly.

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  People, Taoism, Too Much

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• Words spoken about the Way have no taste. When looked at, there's not enough to see. When listened to, there's not enough to hear. When used, it is never exhausted.

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  Taoism, Way, Taste

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• If princes and kings were not exalted they might be overthrown.

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  Kings, Taoism, Might

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• It (Tao) is eternally without desire. So, it can be called small. All things return to it, although it does not make itself their ruler. So, it can be called great.

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  Taoism, Desire, Doe

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• Better stop short than fill to the brim. Oversharpen the blade, and the edge will soon blunt. Amass a store of gold and jade, and no one can protect it.

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  Gold, Jade, Tao

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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• Only those who leisurely approach that which the masses are busy about can be busy about that which the masses take leisurely.

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  Busy, Mass, Approach

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• Those who know when it is enough will not perish.

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  Taoism, Enough, Knows

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• There was something that finished chaos, born before Heaven and Earth.

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  Heaven, Taoism, Earth

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• Stillness is easy to maintain.

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  Taoism, Easy, Stillness

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• Because he is a living divinity, when he acts, the universe acts.

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  Life, Divinity, Universe

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

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• No misfortune is worse than underestimating the enemy. Underestimating the enemy, I risk losing my treasure.

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  Risk, Enemy, Taoism

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