The more prohibitions you have, the less virtuous people will be. The more weapons you have, the less secure people will be. The more subsidies you have, the less self reliant people will be.
When men lack a sense of awe, there will be disaster.
The truth often sounds paradoxical.
...the more you talk of it, the less you understand.
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.
He who has achieved this state Is unconcerned with friends and enemies, With good and harm, with honor and disgrace. This therefore is the highest state of man.
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
See simplicity in the complicated. Achieve greatness in little things
The flame that burns Twice as bright burns half as long.
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.
The more laws and restrictions there are, The poorer people become. The sharper men's weapons, The more trouble in the land.
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
Those who know don't talk. Those who talk don't know. Close your mouth, block off your senses, blunt your sharpness, untie your knots, soften your glare, settle your dust. This is the primal identity. Be like the Tao. It can't be approached or withdrawn from, benefited or harmed, honored or brought into disgrace. It gives itself up continually. That is why it endures.
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?
You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.
Success is as dangerous as failure. Hope is as hollow as fear.
Therefore the stiff and unbending is the disciple of death. The gentle and yielding is the disciple of life.
For one gains by losing And loses by gaining.
The Tao is like a well; used but never used up.
It is fitting for a great nation to yield.
In caring for others and serving heaven, There is nothing like using restraint.
Stop trying to control. Let go of fixed plans and concepts, and the world will govern itself.
Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself.
Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.
In the pursuit of learning, every day something is acquired. In the pursuit of Tao, every day something is dropped.
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