Laozi Quotes - Page 8

• Do you think that you can clear your mind by sitting constantly in silent meditation? This makes your mind narrow, not clear. Integral awareness is fluid and adaptable, present in all places and at all times. That is true meditation. ... The Tao is clear and simple, and it doesn't avoid the world.

  Laozi

  Simple, Thinking, Meditation

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

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• Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.

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  Difficult And Easy, Effectiveness, Risk

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• Those who seek knowledge, collect something every day. Those who seek the Way, let go of something every day.

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  Letting Go, Knowledge, Taoism

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• Abandon knowledge and your worries are over.

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  Knowledge, Worry, Taoism

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• If you tell me, I will listen. If you show me, I will see. If you let me experience, I will learn!

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  Show Me, Let Me, Shows

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• Be still like a mountain and flow like a great river.

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  Rivers, Taoism, Mountain

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• To know one's ignorance is the best part of knowledge.

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  Ignorance, Knows

  Laozi, Sepharial (1904). “The Book of the Simple Way of Laotze: A New Translation from the Text of the Tao-teh-king”

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• Men are born soft and supple; dead, they are stiff and hard. Plants are born tender and pliant; dead, they are brittle and dry. Thus whoever is stiff and inflexible is a disciple of death. Whoever is soft and yielding is a disciple of life. The hard and stiff will be broken. The soft and supple will prevail.

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  Inspirational, Life, Death

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• To know and not to do is not yet to know.

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  Knows

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• People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

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  Inspirational, Life And Love, Failure

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• Goodness in words creates trust, goodness in thinking creates depth, goodness in giving creates love.

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  Thinking, Giving, Taoism

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• The wise man puts himself last and finds himself first.

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  Wise, Men, Motivational Sales

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• When you let go of what you are, you become what you might be.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Letting Go

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• Always be on the lookout for ways to nurture your dream.

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  Dream, Opportunity For Success, Worry

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• Stop trying to control. Let go of fixed plans and concepts, and the world will govern itself.

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  Letting Go, Taoism, Trying

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• Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.

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  Inspirational, Selfish, Simple

  Tao-te Ching ch. 19 (translation byWing-Tsit Chan)

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• Most of the world's religions serve only to strengthen attachments to false concepts such as self and other, life and death, heaven and earth, and so on. Those who become entangled in these false ideas are prevented from perceiving the Integral Oneness.

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  Life, Attachment, Self

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

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• The biggest in the world is small in its beginning.

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  Taoism, World, World Is Small

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• People are difficult to rule, because of their knowledge.

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  Knowledge, People, Taoism

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• The best leaders are those their people hardly know exist.
  The next best is a leader who is loved and praised.
  Next comes the one who is feared.
  The worst one is the leader that is despised ...
  The best leaders value their words, and use them sparingly.
  When they have accomplished their task,
  the people say, "Amazing!
  We did it, all by ourselves!

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  People, Leader, Tao Te Ching

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• Only he who does not seek to be ahead of others is capable of living in harmony with everyone.

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  Philosophy, Doe, Harmony

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• Do not look only at yourself, and you will see much. Do not justify yourself, and you will be distinguished. Do not brag, and you will have merit. Do not be prideful, and your work will endure.

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  Inspirational, Looks, Merit

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• He who is attached to things will suffer much.

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  Suffering, Tao Te Ching Leadership

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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• The value of actions lies in their timing.

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  Lying, Achievement, Action

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• To see things in the seed, that is genius.

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  Nature, Educational, Intelligence

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