Truly, the greatest gift you have to give is that of your own self-transformation.
There is no greater disaster than discontent.
Once upon a time a man whose ax was missing suspected his neighbor's son. The boy walked like a thief, looked like a thief and spoke like a thief. But the man found his ax while digging in the valley, and the next time he saw his neighbor's son, the boy walked, looked and spoke like any other child.
Empty your mind of all thoughts. Let your heart be at peace. Watch the turmoil of beings, but contemplate their return. Each separate being in the universe returns to the common source. Returning to the source is serenity. If you don't realize the source, you stumble in confusion and sorrow. When you realize where you come from, you naturally become tolerant, disinterested, amused, kindhearted as a grandmother, dignified as a king. Immersed in the wonder of the Tao, you can deal with whatever life brings you, and when death comes, you are ready.
Displaying riches and titles with pride brings about one's downfall.
Free from desire, you realize the mystery.
There are many paths to enlightenment. Be sure to take the one with a heart.
Failure is an opportunity. If you blame someone else, there is no end to the blame. Therefore the Master fulfills her own obligations and corrects her own mistakes. She does what she needs to do and demands nothing of others.
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.
A good manager is best when people barely know that he exists. Not so good when people obey and acclaim him. Worse when they despise him.
As soon as you have made a thought, laugh at it.
Whatever is flexible and living will tend to grow; whatever is rigid and blocked will wither and die.
Allow your softer, more intuitive, and less dominating feminine qualities to rise to the fore, so that you're surrendering rather than dominating, receiving rather than broadcasting, loving rather than fighting.
The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, Having bestowed all he has on others, he has yet more; having given all he has to others, he is richer still.
Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.
Those who seek knowledge, collect something every day. Those who seek the Way, let go of something every day.
If you attach yourself to gross energies - loving this person, hating that clan, rejecting one experience or habitually indulging in another - then you will lead a series of heavy, attached lives. This can go on for a very long and tedious time.
Mastering others is strength. Mastering oneself makes you fearless.
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.
The more laws that are written, the more criminals are produced.
Ordinary men hate solitude. But the Master makes use of it, embracing his aloneness, realizing he is one with the whole universe.
A good athlete can enter a state of body-awareness in which the right stroke or the right movement happens by itself, effortlessly, without any interference of the conscious will. This is a paradigm for non-action: the purest and most effective form of action. The game plays the game; the poem writes the poem; we can't tell the dancer from the dance. It happens when we trust the intelligence of the universe in the same way that an athlete or a dancer trusts the superior intelligence of the body.
Health is the greatest possession.
Solve it before it happens. Order it before chaos emerges.
In work, do what you enjoy.
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