Tao Ching Quotes

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  Those who know do not talk. Those who talk do not know.

  Laozi

  Education, Tao Te Ching, Intelligence

  Laozi, Lao-Tzu, Stephen Addiss, Stanley Lombardo (2007). “Tao Te Ching”, p.55, Shambhala Publications

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• My teachings are easy to understand and easy to put into practice. Yet your intellect will never grasp them, and if you try to practice them, you'll fail. My teachings are older than the world. How can you grasp their meaning? If you want to know me, look inside your heart.

  Laozi

  Teaching, Heart, Practice

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• Be Content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

  Laozi

  Life, Happiness, Spiritual

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• Give evil nothing to oppose and it will disappear by itself.

  Laozi

  Evil, Giving, Tao Te Ching

  Laozi (2008). “Daodejing: A Literal-critical Translation”, University Press of Amer

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• The tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao The name that can be named is not the eternal Name. The unnamable is the eternally real. Naming is the origin of all particular things. Free from desire, you realize the mystery. Caught in desire, you see only the manifestations. Yet mystery and manifestations arise from the same source. This source is called darkness. Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

  Laozi

  Real, Names, Darkness Within

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• When there is no desire, all things are at peace

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Tao Te Ching, Taoism

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• If you want to know me, look inside your heart.

  Laozi

  Heart, Tao Te Ching, Looks

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• ...the more you talk of it, the less you understand.

  Laozi

  Tao Te Ching, Taoism, Saints And Sinners

  Laozi (2016). “The Tao Te Ching: Annotated Edition”, p.97, Dudeism LLC

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• Free from desire, you realize the mystery, caught in the desire, you see only the manifestations.

  Laozi

  Tao Te Ching, Desire, Mystery

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• The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao. The name that can be named is not the eternal Name.

  Laozi

  Names, Tao Te Ching, Taoism

  Laozi, Bi Wang, Paul J. Lin (1977). “A translation of Lao Tzu's Tao te ching and Wang Pi's commentary”, Univ of Michigan Center for chinese

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• Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

  Laozi

  Darkness Within, Understanding, Tao Te Ching

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• If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Change, Spiritual

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• Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Strength, Being Strong

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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 people see some things as good, other things become bad.

  Laozi

  People, Tao Te Ching, Book Of Tao

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• Shape clay into a vessel;
  It is the space within that makes it useful.
  Cut doors and windows for a room;
  It is the holes which make it useful.
  Therefore benefit comes from what is there;
  Usefulness from what is not there.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Cutting, Space

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• Free from desire, you realize the mystery.

  Laozi

  Tao Te Ching, Desire, Mystery

  "Tao Te Ching". Book by Laozi (Ch. 1), 4th century BC.

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• He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.

  Laozi

  Being Strong, Perseverance, Stay Strong

  Laozi (1959). “Tao Tê Ching: A New Translation”

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• If you want to be given everything, give everything up.

  Laozi

  Giving, Tao Te Ching, Taoism

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• 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?

  Laozi

  Thinking, Self, Tao Te Ching

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• The Tao is like a well; used but never used up.

  Laozi

  Tao Te Ching, Taoism, Used

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• If good happens, good; if bad happens, good.

  Laozi

  Tao Te Ching, Taoism, Happens

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

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Dangerous, Tao Te Ching Leadership

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• In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple.

  Laozi

  Simple, Thinking, Dwelling

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

  Laozi

  Letting Go, Taoism, Trying

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