Laozi Quotes - Page 9

• Success is as dangerous as failure. Hope is as hollow as fear.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Dangerous, Tao Ching

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• Health is the greatest possession.

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  Health, Possession

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• Empty your mind of all thoughts.

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  Loss, Mind, Empty

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• There is no greater sin than desire, No greater curse than discontent, No greater misfortune than wanting something for oneself. Therefore he who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.

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  Desire, Sin, Enough

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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• Knowledge studies others, wisdom is self known.

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  Self, Study, Known

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• Acting without design, occupying oneself without making a business of it, finding the great in what is small and the many in the few, repaying injury with kindness, effecting difficult things while they are easy, and managing great things in their beginnings; this is the method of Tao.

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  Kindness, Business, Design

  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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• Loving, hating, having expectations: all these are attachments. Attachment prevents the growth of one's true being.

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  Family, True Friend, Hate

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

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• Become totally empty
  Quiet the restlessness of the mind
  Only then will you witness everything unfolding from emptiness

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  Inspirational, Mind, Emptiness

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• Hold on to the center and make up your mind to rejoice in this paradise called life.

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  Life, Appreciation, Mind

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• Peacefulness is an inner sense of calm - it comes from becoming still - in order to reflect and meditate on our inner wisdom and receive answers. A peaceful heart is one that is free from worry and rouble. It's becoming quiet so we can look at things quietly so we can more clearly understand them and thus come up with creative solutions. It is learning to live in the present. Freedom from desire leads to inner peace.

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  Heart, Order, Worry

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• The eye with which you see God is the same eye with which God sees you; one in seeing; one in knowing; one in loving.

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  Eye, Knowing, Seeing

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• Prepare for the difficult while it is still easy. Deal with the big while it is still small. Difficult undertakings have always started with what easy. Great undertakings always started with what is small. Therefore the sage never strives for the great,And thereby the great is achieved.

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  Character, Sage, Easy

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• I observe myself and I come to know others.

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  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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• It is as though he listened and such listening as his enfolds us in silence in which at last we begin to hear what we are meant to be.

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  Silence, Listening, Lasts

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• In work, do what you enjoy.

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  Work, Enjoy

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• The mystical techniques for achieving immortality are revealed only to those who have dissolved all ties to the gross worldly realm of duality, conflict, and dogma. As long as your shallow worldly ambitions exist, the door will not open.

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  Ambition, Doors, Ties

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

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• There is no greater crime than desire.

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  Taoism, Desire, Crime

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• A government can be compared to our lungs. Our lungs are best when we don't realize they are helping us breathe. It is when we are constantly aware of our lungs that we know they have come down with an illness.

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  Government, Politics, Helping

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• Mastering others is strength. Mastering oneself makes you fearless.

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  Inspirational, Strength, Inspiring

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• Can you dissolve your ego? Can you abandon the idea of self and other? Can you relinquish the notions of male and female, short and long, life and death? Can you let go of all these dualities and embrace the Tao without skepticism or panic? If so, you can reach the heart of the Integral Oneness.

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  Letting Go, Heart, Self

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

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• Keep your mouth shut, and close up the doors of sight and sound, and as long as you live you will have no vexation. But open your mouth, or become inquisitive, and you will be in trouble all your life long.

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  Sight, Doors, Long

  Laozi (1905). “The Simple Way”

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• Freedom from desire leads to inner peace.

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  Peace, Desire, Calmness

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• Simplicity, patience, compassion.
  These three are your greatest treasures.
  Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being.
  Patient with both friends and enemies, you accord with the way things are.
  Compassionate toward yourself, you reconcile all beings in the world.

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  Life, Patience, Philosophy

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• Yet mystery and imagination arise from the same source. This source is called darkness ... Darkness within darkness, the gateway to all understanding.

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  Light, Darkness Within, Imagination

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• The usefulness of a pot comes from its emptiness.

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  Emptiness, Pot, Usefulness

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