Laozi Quotes - Page 9

• The value of actions lies in their timing.

  Laozi

  Lying, Achievement, Action

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

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  Dream, Opportunity For Success, Worry

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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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• Knowledge studies others, wisdom is self known.

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  Self, Study, Known

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

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  Nature, Educational, Intelligence

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• There is no greater crime than desire.

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  Taoism, Desire, Crime

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• The ancients said: Hulk to be whole.

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  Taoism, Said, Whole

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

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  Inspirational, Dangerous, Tao Ching

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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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• 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

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Mind, Emptiness

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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.

  Laozi

  Heart, Order, Worry

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• The usefulness of a pot comes from its emptiness.

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  Emptiness, Pot, Usefulness

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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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• In work, do what you enjoy.

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  Work, Enjoy

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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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• 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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• 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.

  Laozi

  Ambition, Doors, Ties

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

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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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• When people see some things as beautiful, other things become ugly. When people see some things as good, other things become bad. Being and non-being create each other. Difficult and easy support each other. Long and short define each other. High and low depend on each other. Before and after follow each other. Therefore the Master acts without doing anything and teaches without saying anything. Things arise and she lets them come; things disappear and she lets them go. She has but doesn't possess, acts but doesn't expect. When her work is done, she forgets it. That is why it lasts forever.

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  Beauty, Beautiful, Difficult And Easy

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• Freedom from desire leads to inner peace.

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  Peace, Desire, Calmness

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• The ego is entranced by ... names and ideas... However names and concepts only block your perception of this Great Oneness. Therefore it is wise to ignore them. Those who live inside their egos are continually bewildered.

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  Wise, Block, Names

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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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