Accept disgrace willingly... Accept being unimportant... Surrender yourself humbly; then you can be trusted to care for all things. Love the world as your own self; then you can truly care for all things.
The biggest in the world is small in its beginning.
I do not act, and people become reformed by themselves.
When goodness is lost, it is replaced by morality.
Accomplish but do not boast, accomplish without show, accomplish without arrogance, accomplish without grabbing, accomplish without forcing.
Does one scent appeal more than another? Do you prefer this flavor, or that feeling? Is your practice sacred and your work profane? Then your mind is separated: from itself, from oneness, from the Tao.
If you wish to be out front, then act as if you were behind.
Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.
Develop the strength of a man, but live as gently as a woman
If you wish to become a divine immortal angel, then restore the angelic qualities of your being through virtue and service. This is the only way to gain the attention of the immortals... These angelic teachers cannot be sought out; it is they who seek out the student. When you succeed in connecting your energy with the divine realm through high awareness and the practice of undiscriminating virtue, the transmission of the ultimate subtle truths will follow.
If you are at peace, you are living in the present.
The value of actions lies in their timing.
Throw away profit and greed, and there won't be any thieves.
If there is to be peace in the world, There must be peace in the nations. If there is to be peace in the nations, There must be peace in the cities. If there is to be peace in the cities, There must be peace between neighbors. If there is to be peace between neighbors, There must be peace in the home. If there is to be peace in the home, There must be peace in the heart.
A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.
Loss is not as bad as wanting more.
When the student is ready the teacher will appear.
The more clever and cunning people are, the stranger the events will be.
The usefulness of a pot comes from its emptiness.
Acting without design, occupying oneself without making a business of it, finding the great in what is small and the many in the few, repaying injury with kindness, effecting difficult things while they are easy, and managing great things in their beginnings; this is the method of Tao.
Can you step back from your own mind and thus understand all things?
There is no greater crime than desire.
Those who are right do not argue. Those who argue are not right.
The master understands that the universe is forever out of control
Rule your mind with serenity rather than with force and manipulation.
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