Taoism Quotes - Page 6

• Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.

  Laozi

  Love, Wisdom, Passion

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• To get rid of villains and knaves, it is necessary to give them a way out. If you don't give them any leeway at all, they will be like trapped rats. If every way out is closed to them, they will chew up everything good.

  Zicheng Hong

  Giving, Rats, Knaves

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• If you realize that you have enough, you are truly rich.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Learning, Tao Te Ching

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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, Eternity

  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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• Compromise to please others is not as good as integrity that annoys others. Rather than be praised without being good, it is better to be slandered without being bad.

  Zicheng Hong

  Integrity, Compromise, Annoying

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• Our body is a small universe; to regulate emotions and feelings is a way of harmonization.

  Zicheng Hong

  Feelings, Body, Way

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• If those who give are conscious of their own generosity and those who receive feel indebted, they are no longer family but rather strangers doing business.

  Zicheng Hong

  Generosity, Giving, Stranger

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• When enlightened people are so poor that they cannot help others, if they speak a word to awaken the confused or to resolve a problem, there is also boundless merit in that.

  Zicheng Hong

  Confused, Helping Others, People

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• Loss is not as bad as wanting more.

  Laozi

  Loss, Wanting More

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• If you scramble about in search of inner peace, you will lose your inner peace.

  Laozi

  Inner Peace, Ifs, Loses

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

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• Water always seeks the easiest path, the common level of life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Water, Levels, Path

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• Water is the symbol of pure consciousness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Water, Consciousness, Symbols

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• All men desire to free themselves solely from death; they do not know how to free themselves from life.

  Laozi

  Men, Desire, Know How

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• The pageant of life is divided into ying and yang. They're two circles. You can follow either circle and manage to develop enough speed to move beyond this world to other worlds, dimensional realities.

  Frederick Lenz

  Moving, Reality, Other Worlds

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• A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

  Confucius

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  Confucius “The Analects”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• What is essential to practice the Tao is to get rid of cravings and vexations. If these afflictions are not removed, it is impossible to attain stability. This is like the case of the fertile field, which cannot produce good crops as long as the weeds are not cleared away. Cravings and ruminations are the weeds of the mind; if you do not clear them away, concentration and wisdom do not develop.

  Zhang Sanfeng

  Weed, Practice, Long

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• Many sections are taken up with political discussions and how the way of the ruler, the merchant, the householder, and the army interact with the Tao.

  Frederick Lenz

  Taken, Army, Political

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• When one is not slipshod in small matters, not hypocritical in secret, and not reckless in disappointment, only then is one a true hero.

  Zicheng Hong

  Disappointment, Hero, Secret

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• Unexpected hardship refines people; if you can accept it, both mind and body will benefit. If you cannot accept it, on the other hand, both mind and body will be harmed.

  Zicheng Hong

  Hands, People, Mind

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• Those who know it do not speak about it. Those who speak about it do not know it.

  Laozi

  Knowledge, Speak, Knows

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• Abandon wisdom, discard knowledge, and people will benefit a hundredfold.

  Laozi

  Knowledge, People, Benefits

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• Buddhism teaches us not to want things, not to avoid things, not to be upset by the loss. In the I Ching, there's a hexagram that says, "Be like the sun at midday". View all things as being equal.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Loss, Views

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• The world is a sacred vessel that cannot be changed. He who changes it will destroy it. He who seizes it will lose it.

  Laozi

  World, Sacred, Changed

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• The most able seems clumsy.

  Laozi

  Able, Seems, Clumsy

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• Those who understand others are clever, those who understand themselves are wise.

  Laozi

  Wise, Clever, Knowledge

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