Laozi Quotes - Page 5

• Observe how endings become beginnings.

  Laozi

  Tao Te Ching, Tao Ching, Tao Wisdom

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• A good athlete can enter a state of body-awareness in which the right stroke or the right movement happens by itself, effortlessly, without any interference of the conscious will. This is a paradigm for non-action: the purest and most effective form of action. The game plays the game; the poem writes the poem; we can't tell the dancer from the dance. It happens when we trust the intelligence of the universe in the same way that an athlete or a dancer trusts the superior intelligence of the body.

  Laozi

  Writing, Athlete, Games

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• No weapon is sharper than will.

  Laozi

  Weapons

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• Throw away profit and greed, and there won't be any thieves.

  Laozi

  Greed, Thieves, Profit

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• Softness triumphs over hardness, feebleness over strength. What is more malleable is always superior over that which is immoveable. This is the principle of controlling things by going along with them, of mastery through adaptation.

  Laozi

  Triumph, Principles, Mastery

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• When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

  Laozi

  Relationship, Respect, Being Yourself

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• When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• The sage is not ill, because he sees illness as illness.

  Laozi

  Knowledge, Taoism, Sage

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• Understand this if nothing else: spiritual freedom and oneness with the Tao are not randomly bestowed gifts, but the rewards of conscious self-transformation and self-evolution.

  Laozi

  Spiritual, Self, Oneness

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• By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.

  Laozi

  Letting Go, Goodbye, Winning

  "Tao Te Ching". Book by Laozi, Ch. 48, as translated by Raymond B. Blakney (1955), c. 6th - 5th century BC.

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• All action begins in rest... This is the ultimate truth.

  Laozi

  Action, Ultimate Truth, Ultimate

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• Strong winds do not last all morning, hard rains do not last all day.

  Laozi

  Strong, Morning, Rain

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• Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. This is another paradox: what is soft is strong.

  Laozi

  Inspiring, Spiritual, Strong

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• Excellent warriors are not violent.

  Laozi

  Warrior, Taoism, Excellent

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• He who hoards much loses much.

  Laozi

  Simplicity, Loses

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• If one desires to receive one must first give. This is called profound understanding.

  Laozi

  Giving, Profound, Understanding

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• The wise man, after learning something new, is afraid to learn anything more until he has put his first lesson into practice.

  Laozi

  Wise, Meaningful, Men

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• Deal with difficult tasks while they are easy. Act on large issues while they are small.

  Laozi

  Life, Issues, Tasks

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• Why separate your spiritual life and your practical life? To an integral being, there is no such distinction.

  Laozi

  Life, Spiritual, Being There

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

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• If a person seems wicked, do not cast him away. Awaken him with your words, elevate him with your deeds, repay his injury with your kindness. Do not cast him away; cast away his wickedness.

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  Spiritual, Kindness, Wicked

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• Success is as dangerous as failure.
  Hope is as hollow as fear.
  
  What does it mean that success is a dangerous as failure?
  Whether you go up the ladder or down it,
  you position is shaky.
  When you stand with your two feet on the ground,
  you will always keep your balance.
  
  What does it mean that hope is as hollow as fear?
  Hope and fear are both phantoms
  that arise from thinking of the self.
  When we don't see the self as self,
  what do we have to fear?
  
  See the world as your self.
  Have faith in the way things are.
  Love the world as your self;
  then you can care for all things.

  Laozi

  Fear, Failure, Mean

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• He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

  Laozi

  Positive, Encouragement, Powerful

  Laozi, Archie J. Bahm (1996). “Tao Teh King”, p.36, Jain Publishing Company

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• The world is won by those who let it go.

  Laozi

  Letting Go, Attachment, Let It Go

  "Tao Te Ching". Ch. 48, as translated by Raymond B. Blakney, 1955.

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• Thirty spokes meet in the hub,
  but the empty space between them
  is the essence of the wheel.
  
  Pots are formed from clay,
  but the empty space within it
  is the essence of the pot.
  
  Walls with windows and doors
  form the house,
  but the empty space within it
  is the essence of the home.

  Laozi

  Wall, Home, Essence

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• To be learned, add something each day. To be enlightened drop something each day.

  Laozi

  Add, Each Day, Enlightened

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