Laozi Quotes - Page 44

• A good mooring needs no knot, still no one can untie it.

  Laozi

  Taoism, Needs, Knots

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• Being a model to the world, eternal virtue will never falter in you, and you return to the boundless.

  Laozi

  Taoism, World, Return

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• Must one dread what others dread?

  Laozi

  Taoism, Dread

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• When the emperor is crowned or the three dukes are appointed, rather than sending a gift of jade carried by four horses, remain still and offer the Way.

  Laozi

  Horse, Taoism, Three

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• {The cleansing of spiritual contamination} is accomplished by offering one's talent, resources, and life to the world.

  Laozi

  Life, Spiritual, Offering

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• The Tao is the center of the universe, the good man's treasure, the bad man's refuge. Honors can be bought with fine words, respect can be won with good deeds; but the Tao is beyond all value, and no one can achieve it. Thus, when a new leader is chosen, don't offer to help him with your wealth or your expertise. Offer instead to teach him about the Tao. Why did the ancient Masters esteem the Tao? Because, being one with the Tao, when you seek, you find; and when you make a mistake, you are forgiven. That is why everybody loves it.

  Laozi

  Mistake, Men, Leader

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• The Tao is great. The universe is great. Earth is great. Man is great. These are the four great powers. Man follows the earth. Earth follows the universe. The universe follows the Tao. The Tao follows only itself.

  Laozi

  Men, Earth, Four

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• Practice not-doing and everything will fall into place.

  Laozi

  Fall, Practice, Action

  "The Tao Te Ching by Laozi: ancient wisdom for modern times" by Damien Walter, www.theguardian.com. December 27, 2013.

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• If your virtue is especially radiant, it can be possible to open a pathway to the subtle realm and receive these celestial teachings directly from the immortals.

  Laozi

  Teaching, Pathways, Virtue

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• The journey of a thousand miles
  starts from beneath your feet.
  
  NOTE: Other translations exist, such as:Great trees grow from the smallest shoots;a terraced garden, from a pile of earth,and a journey of a thousand milesbegins by taking the initial step.

  Laozi

  Journey, Garden, Feet

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• Sages do not accumulate for themselves. The more they give to others, the more they possess of their own. The way of Heaven is to benefit others and not to injure.

  Laozi

  Giving, Heaven, Sage

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• If you want to accord with the Tao, just do your job, then let go.

  Laozi

  Letting Go, Jobs, Work

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• Those who know others are intelligent Those who know themselves have insight. Those who master others have force Those who master themselves have strength.Those who know what is enough are wealthy. Those who persevere have direction. Those who maintain their position endure. And those who die and yet do not perish, live on.

  Laozi

  Intelligent, Persevere, Enough

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• The Eternal generates the One. The One generates the Two. The Two generates the Three. The Three generates all things.

  Laozi

  Two, Three, Miscellaneous

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• Since before time and space were, the Tao is. It is beyond is and is not.

  Laozi

  Space, Tao Te Ching, Book Of Tao

  "Tao Te Ching". Book by Laozi (Ch. 21), 4th century BC.

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• Lay plans for the accomplishment of the difficult before it becomes difficult; make something big by starting with it when small.

  Laozi

  Accomplishment, Starting, Bigs

  Laozi, D. C. Lau (1989). “Tao Te Ching”, p.93, Chinese University Press

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• That which shrinks must first expand.

  Laozi

  Firsts, Shrinks

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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• It is the child that sees the primordial secret in Nature and it is the child of ourselves we return to. The child within us is simple and daring enough to live the Secret.

  Laozi

  Children, Simple, Secret

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• Do nothing, and leave nothing undone. ["Doing nothing" is what happens when the doer disappears, it isn't something that one does or chooses not to do.]

  Laozi

  Spiritual, Doe, Doing Nothing

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• Through return to simple living comes control of desires. In control of desires stillness is attained. In stillness the world is restored.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

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• The leader's main job is to make themselves obsolete.

  Laozi

  Jobs, Leader, Obsolete

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• Practice non-action. Work without doing.

  Laozi

  Work, Practice, Action

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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• All things arise in unison. Thereby we see their return.

  Laozi

  Taoism, Return, Arise

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• When you are sick of your sickness you will cease to be sick.

  Laozi

  Sick, Sickness, Homeopathy

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• Only by working within the laws that govern the flow of water will happiness be achieved.

  Laozi

  Law, Water, Flow

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