Laozi Quotes - Page 10

• Trying to understand is like straining through muddy water. Be still and allow the mud to settle.

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  Patience, Knowledge, Water

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• Peacefulness is an inner sense of calm - it comes from becoming still - in order to reflect and meditate on our inner wisdom and receive answers. A peaceful heart is one that is free from worry and rouble. It's becoming quiet so we can look at things quietly so we can more clearly understand them and thus come up with creative solutions. It is learning to live in the present. Freedom from desire leads to inner peace.

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  Heart, Order, Worry

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• There are many paths to enlightenment. Be sure to take the one with a heart.

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  Inspiring, Heart, Enlightenment

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• Excellent warriors are not violent.

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  Warrior, Taoism, Excellent

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• To know how little one knows is to have genuine knowledge. Not to know how little one knows is to be deluded. Only those who know when they are deluded can free themselves from such delusion. The intelligent people are not deluded, because they know and accept their ignorance as ignorance, and thereby have genuine knowledge.

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  Ignorance, Knowledge, Intelligent

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• When you let go of what you are, you become what you might be.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Letting Go

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• 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.

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  Kings, Heart, Grandmother

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• Face the simple fact before it comes involved. Solve the small problem before it becomes big.

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  Inspirational, Simple, Small Problems

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• The more laws that are written, the more criminals are produced.

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  Law, Taoism, Criminals

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

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  Letting Go, Taoism, Trying

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• He who stands on tiptoe
  doesn't stand firm.
  He who rushes ahead
  doesn't go far.
  He who tries to shine
  dims his own light.
  He who defines himself
  can't know who he really is.
  He who has power over others
  can't empower himself.
  He who clings to his work
  will create nothing that endures.

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  Inspirational, Light, Empowering

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• Be still like a mountain and flow like a great river.

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  Rivers, Taoism, Mountain

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• The best way to manage anything is by making use of its own nature.

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  Use, Way, Best Way

  Laozi, Archie J. Bahm (1996). “Tao Teh King”, p.47, Jain Publishing Company

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

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  Evil, Giving, Tao Te Ching

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

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• ALL things in Nature work silently. They come into being and possess nothing. They fulfil their functions and make no claim.

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  Gratitude, Humility, Courtesy

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• To see things in the seed, that is genius.

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  Nature, Educational, Intelligence

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• From wonder into wonder existence opens.

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  Inspirational, Taoism, Awakening

  "The Way of Life, According to Laotzu" by Witter Bynner, 1944.

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• The greatest virtue is to follow the Way utterly.

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  Taoism, Way, Virtue

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• 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.

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  Helping Others, Generosity, Doe

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• 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.

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  Fighting, Taoism, Quality

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• Other people are occupied, I alone am unwilling, like the outcast.

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  Compassion, People, Taoism

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• Understand this if nothing else: spiritual freedom and oneness with the Tao are not randomly bestowed gifts, but the rewards of conscious self-transformation and self-evolution.

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  Spiritual, Self, Oneness

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• Can you step back from your own mind and thus understand all things?

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  Mind, Taoism, Steps

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• 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.

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  Teacher, Angel, Practice

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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?

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  Thinking, Self, Tao Te Ching

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