Laozi Quotes - Page 12

• To become learned, each day add something. To become enlightened, each day drop something

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  Inspirational, Spiritual, Philosophy

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• It is wealth to be content.

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  Wealth

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• The highest virtue does nothing. Yet, nothing needs to be done. The lowest virtue does everything. Yet, much remains to be done.

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  Taoism, Doe, Needs

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• . . . integral wisdom involves a direct participation in every moment: the observer and the observed are dissolved in the light of pure awareness, and no mental concepts or attitudes are present to dim that light.

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  Wisdom, Attitude, Light

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

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• Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.

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  Inspirational, Life, Music

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• Confidence is the greatest friend.

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• 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.

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  Life, Hate, Long

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

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• If you wish to be out front, then act as if you were behind.

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  Inspirational, Inspiring, Success

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• The eternal void is filled with infinite possibilities

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  Void, Infinite, Possibility

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• The moment truth is asserted, it becomes false.

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  Moments, Truth Is

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• There is a time to go ahead and a time to stay behind. There is a time to breathe easy and time to breathe hard. There is a time to be vigorous and a time to be gentle. There is a time to gather and a time to release. Can you see things as they are And let them be all on their own?

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  Motivation, Feeling Down, Feelings

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• As long as we have hope, we have direction, the energy to move, and the map to move by. We have a hundred alternatives, a thousand paths and an infinity of dreams. Hopeful, we are halfway to where we want to go; hopeless, we are lost forever.

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  Dream, Moving, Long

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• Most of the world's religions serve only to strengthen attachments to false concepts such as self and other, life and death, heaven and earth, and so on. Those who become entangled in these false ideas are prevented from perceiving the Integral Oneness.

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  Life, Attachment, Self

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

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• Why are the people starving?-
  Because their grain is being eaten up by the taxes
  That's why they're starving
  
  Why are people rebellious?-
  Because those above them meddle in their lives
  That's why they're rebellious
  
  Why do people regard death so lightly?-
  Because they are so involved with their own living
  That's why they regard death so lightly
  
  In the end,
  The treasure of life is missed by those who hold on
  and gained by those who let go

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  Life, Letting Go, People

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• The mystical techniques for achieving immortality are revealed only to those who have dissolved all ties to the gross worldly realm of duality, conflict, and dogma. As long as your shallow worldly ambitions exist, the door will not open.

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  Ambition, Doors, Ties

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

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• Do not imagine that an integral being has the ambition of enlightening the unaware or raising worldly people to the divine realm. To her, there is no self and other, and hence no one to be raised; no heaven and hell, and hence no destination.

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  Ambition, Self, People

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• Supreme good is like water. Water greatly benefits all things, without conflict. It flows through places that people loathe. Thereby it is close to the Way.

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  Compassion, People, Water

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• Take care with the end as you do with the beginning

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  Inspirational, Care, Take Care

  Laozi (1959). “Tao Tê Ching: A New Translation”

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• The flame that burns Twice as bright burns half as long.

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  Inspirational, Philosophy, Flames

  "Tao Te Ching". 4th century BC.

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• Always be on the lookout for ways to nurture your dream.

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  Dream, Opportunity For Success, Worry

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• Become totally empty
  Quiet the restlessness of the mind
  Only then will you witness everything unfolding from emptiness

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  Inspirational, Mind, Emptiness

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• Every human being's essential nature is perfect and faultless, but after years of immersion in the world we easily forget our roots and take on a counterfeit nature.

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  Positivity, Years, Roots

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• Abandon knowledge and your worries are over.

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  Knowledge, Worry, Taoism

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• Live simply and virtuously, true to your nature, drawing no line between what is spiritual and what is not.

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  Spiritual, Drawing, Lines

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

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• It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.

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  Inspirational, Nature, Follow Your Heart

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