Laozi Quotes - Page 13

• If you go searching for the Great Creator, you will come back empty-handed. The source of the universe is ultimately unknowable, a great invisible river flowing forever through a vast and fertile valley. Silent and uncreated, it creates all things.

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  Rivers, Forever, Valleys

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

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• Things flourish, then each returns to its root. Returning to the root is called stillness: Stillness is called return to life, return to life is called the constant; knowing the constant is called enlightenment.

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  Spiritual, Roots, Knowing

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• . . . Intelligence is not the same thing as wisdom.

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  Wisdom, Intelligence

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• Seeing the small is called Clarity.
  Keeping flexible is called Strength.
  Using the shining Radiance,
  You enter the Light,
  Where no harm can come to you.
  This is called Enlightenment.

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  Strength, Light, Shining

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• A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants. A good scientist has freed himself of concepts and keeps his mind open to what is.

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  Change, Artist, Intuition

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• Weapons are instruments of fear; they are not a wise man's tools. He uses them only when he has no choice.

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  Wise, Men, Choices

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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• Open yourself to the truth, then trust in your natural responses, and everything will fall into place.

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  Fall, Natural, Fall Into Place

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• Whoever relies on the Tao in governing men doesn't try to force issues or defeat enemies by force of arms. For every force there is a counterforce. Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself. The Master does his job and then stops. He understands that the universe is forever out of control, and that trying to dominate events goes against the current of the Tao. Because he believes in himself, he doesn't try to convince others. Because he is content with himself, he doesn't need others' approval. Because he accepts himself, the whole world accepts him.

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  Jobs, Believe, Men

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• It is as though he listened and such listening as his enfolds us in silence in which at last we begin to hear what we are meant to be.

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  Silence, Listening, Lasts

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• Hold on to the ancient Way to master the present, and to learn the distant beginning.

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  Taoism, Way, Ancient

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• Going forward seems like retreat.

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  Retreat, Seems, Tao Te Ching Leadership

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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• Prepare while it's easy.

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  Easy

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• All things of the world are born of being; being is born of nonbeing.

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  Taoism, World, Born

  "Daodejing: A Literal-critical Translation".

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• Yielding is the way of the Tao.

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  Acceptance, Taoism, Way

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• Never take over the world to tamper with it. Those who want to tamper with it are not fit to take over the world.

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  Taoism, World, Want

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• What is a good man but a bad man's teacher? What is a bad man but a good man's job? If you do not remember this, You will get lost, No matter how intelligent you are. It is the great secret.

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  Teacher, Jobs, Intelligent

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• The Master's power is like this. He lets all things come and go effortlessly, without desire. He never expects results; thus he is never disappointed. He is never disappointed; thus his spirit never grows old.

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  Tao Te Ching, Taoism, Desire

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• Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.

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  Inspirational, Men, Enemy

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• Those who praise themselves do not prevail.

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  Taoism, Praise

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• When nothing is done, nothing is left undone.

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  Tao Te Ching, Taoism, Done

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

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• There was something formless and perfect before the universe was born. It is serene. Empty. Solitary. Unchanging. Infinite. Eternally present. It is the mother of the universe. For lack of a better name, I call it the Tao. It flows through all things, inside and outside, and returns to the origin of all things. The Tao is great. The universe is great. Earth is great. Man is great. These are the four great powers. Man follows the earth. Earth follows the universe. The universe follows the Tao. The Tao follows only itself.

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  Mother, Men, Names

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• Without opening your door, you can open your heart to the world. Without looking out your window, you can see the essence of the Tao. The more you know, the less you understand. The Master arrives without leaving, sees the light without looking, achieves without doing a thing.

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  Heart, Light, Doors

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• Always without desire we must be found, If its deep mystery we would sound; But if desire always within us be, Its outer fringe is all that we shall see.

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  Wise, Wisdom, Desire

  Laozi, Philip J. Ivanhoe (2003). “The Daodejing of Laozi”, p.102, Hackett Publishing

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• People are difficult to rule, because of their knowledge.

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  Knowledge, People, Taoism

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• The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world. Through this I know the advantage of taking no action.

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  Acting, Overcoming, World

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