Laozi Quotes - Page 11

• The usefulness of the pot lies in its emptiness.

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  Lying, Emptiness, Pot

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• If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

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  Inspirational, Change, Success

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• Covetousness is the greatest misfortune. One who does not know what is enough will never have enough.

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  Doe, Enough, Knows

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• But in the present day men cast off gentleness, and are all for being bold; they spurn frugality, and retain only extravagance; they discard humility, and aim only at being first. Therefore they shall surely perish.

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  Humility, Men, Extravagance

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• The Tao is unpredictable to those that live according to plans. Only those who have no agenda are in harmony with the Tao.

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  Agendas, Tao, Planning

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• The sage knows without traveling, perceives without looking, completes without acting.

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  Taoism, Acting, Sage

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• The mark of a moderate man is freedom from his own ideas. Tolerant like the sky, all-pervading like sunlight, firm like a mountain, supple like a tree in the wind, he has no destination in view and makes use of anything life happens to bring his way.

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  Inspirational, Men, Views

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• Health is the greatest possession.

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  Health, Possession

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• Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.

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  Strong, Power, Water

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• Close your mouth,
  block off your senses,
  blunt your sharpness,
  untie your knots,
  soften your glare,
  settle your dust.
  This is the primal identity.

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  Block, Dust, Tao Te Ching

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• The master understands that the universe is forever out of control

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  Forever, Masters, Universe

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• 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.

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  Leadership, People, Good Man

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• Realize thy Simple Self, Embrace thy Original Nature.

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  Simple, Self, Simplicity

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• Empty yourself of everything.
  Let the mind become still.
  The ten thousand things rise and fall while the Self watches their return.
  They grow and flourish and then return to the source.
  Returning to the source is stillness, which is the way of nature.

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  Nature, Fall, Animal

  Laozi, Gia-fu Feng, Jane English (1972). “Tao te ching”, Random House Inc

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• Yet mystery and reality emerge from the same source.

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  Reality, Mystery, Source

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• Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.

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  Difficult And Easy, Effectiveness, Risk

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• Do you think that you can clear your mind by sitting constantly in silent meditation? This makes your mind narrow, not clear. Integral awareness is fluid and adaptable, present in all places and at all times. That is true meditation. ... The Tao is clear and simple, and it doesn't avoid the world.

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  Simple, Thinking, Meditation

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

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• Knowing the future is the flower of the Way, and the beginning of folly.

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  Flower, Knowing, Taoism

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• I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.

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  Leadership, Humility, Men

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• If you close your mind in judgements and traffic with desires, your heart will be troubled. If you keep your mind from judging and aren't led by the senses, your heart will find peace.

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  Peace, Heart, Judging

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• Having reached a high level of realization (or having accomplished anything in life), don't get excited or puffed up with pride but remain calm, humble, and in "perfect equanimity" if you want to continue in this deep state of consciousness.

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  Humble, Pride, Perfect

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• The value comes from what is there, but the use comes from what is not there.

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  Taoism, Use, Values

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• Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.

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  Inspirational, Selfish, Simple

  Tao-te Ching ch. 19 (translation byWing-Tsit Chan)

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• Look, and it can't be seen.
  Listen, and it can't be heard.
  Reach, and it can't be grasped.
  
  Above, it isn't bright.
  Below, it isn't dark.
  Seamless, unnamable,
  it returns to the realm of nothing.
  Form that includes all forms,
  image without an image,
  subtle, beyond all conception.
  
  Approach it and there is no beginning;
  follow it and there is no end.
  You can't know it, but you can be it,
  at ease in your own life.
  Just realize where you come from:
  this is the essence of wisdom.

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  Life, Dark, Essence

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• Be the chief but never the lord.

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  Inspirational, Inspiring, Leadership

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