Laozi Quotes - Page 16

• Stop thinking, and end your problems. What difference between yes and no? What difference between success and failure? Must you value what others value, avoid what others avoid? How ridiculous!

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  Thinking, Differences, Yes And No

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• Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge.

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  Knowledge, Taoism, Trends

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• See others as yourself. See families as your family. See towns as your town. See countries as your country. See worlds as your world.

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  Country, Compassion, Taoism

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• If there is to be peace in the home, There must be peace in the heart.

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  Peace, Home, Heart

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• Learn to lead in a nourishing manner.
  Learn to lead without being possessive.
  Learn to be helpful without taking the credit.
  Learn to lead without coercion.

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  Volunteer, Credit, Coercion

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• That which offers no resistance, overcomes the hardest substances.

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  Taoism, Overcoming, Substance

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• Because every portion of the body, mind, and spirit yearns for the integration of yin and yang, angelic intercourse is led by the spirit rather than the sexual organs. . . . Where ordinary intercourse unites sex organs with sex organs, angelic cultivation unites spirit with spirit, mind with mind, and every cell of one body with every cell of the other body.

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  Sex, Cells, Mind

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• He who loves does not dispute: He who disputes does not love.

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  Love, Doe, Disputes

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• The sage is sharp but does not cut, pointed but does not pierce, forthright but does not offend, bright but does not dazzle.

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  Cutting, Taoism, Doe

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• The superior leader keeps informed about everything but interferes hardly at all.

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  Leader, Interfere, Superiors

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• Use justice to rule a country. Use surprise to wage war. Use non-action to govern the world.

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  Country, War, Justice

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• The highest tone is hard to hear.

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  Taoism, Tone, Hard

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• Approach your own inner life with a loving quality that accepts who you are without trying to change who you are.

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  Taoism, Trying, Quality

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• Be humble and you will remain entire. The sages do not display themselves, therefore they shine. They do not approve themselves, therefore they are noted. They do not praise themselves, therefore they have merit. They do not glory in themselves, therefore they excel.

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  Humble, Humility, Shining

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• Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

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  Darkness Within, Understanding, Tao Te Ching

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• The men who are great live with that which is substantial, they do not stay with that which is superficial; they abide with realities, they do not remain with what is showy. The one they discard, the other they hold.

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  Character, Reality, Men

  "The Tao Teh King: A Short Study in Comparative Religion".

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• When you realize where you come from, you naturally become tolerant, amused, kindhearted as a grandmother, and dignified as a king. Immersed in wonder, you can deal with whatever life brings you, and when death comes, you are ready.

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  Death, Kings, Grandmother

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• There is no need to run outside for better seeing... Rather abide at the center of your being; For the more you leave it the less you learn. Search your heart and see... The way to do is to be.

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  Running, Art, Learning

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• Goodness strives not, and therefore it is not rebuked.

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  Humility, Strive, Goodness

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• Surrender your self-interest. Love others as much as you love yourself. Then you can be entrusted with all things under heaven.

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  Inspirational, Love You, Self

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• Without the tao, Kindness and compassion are replaced by law and justice; Faith and trust are supplanted by ritual and ceremony.

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  Kindness, Compassion, Law

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• . . . These are notions of the mind, which is like a knife, always chipping away at the Tao, trying to render it graspable and manageable. But that which is beyond form is ungraspable, and that which is beyond knowing is unmanageable. There is, however, this consolation: She who lets go of the knife will find the Tao at her fingertips.

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  Letting Go, Knowing, Knives

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

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• Do not look only at yourself, and you will see much. Do not justify yourself, and you will be distinguished. Do not brag, and you will have merit. Do not be prideful, and your work will endure.

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  Inspirational, Looks, Merit

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• Use the Light that dwells within you to regain your natural clarity of sight.

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  Light, Sight, Meditation

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• I have the mind of a fool, understanding nothing.

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  Knowledge, Understanding, Mind

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