Laozi Quotes - Page 19

• To practice virtue is to selflessly offer assistance to others, giving without limitation one's time, abilities, and possessions in service, whenever and wherever needed, without prejudice concerning the identity of those in need.

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  Time, Practice, Giving

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

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• One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him.

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  Inspirational, Leadership, Views

  Laozi, Archie J. Bahm (1996). “Tao Teh King”, p.29, Jain Publishing Company

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• The sense organs, which are limited in scope and ability, randomly gather information. This partial information is arranged into judgments, which are based on previous judgments, which are usually based on someone else's foolish ideas. These false concepts and ideas are then stored in a highly selective memory system.

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  Memories, Ideas, Information

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

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• Those who stay where they are will endure.

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  Taoism, Endure

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• Simple, like uncarved wood.

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  Simple, Taoism, Woods

  Laozi (2009). “Lao-tzu's Taoteching: With Selected Commentaries from the Past 2,000 Years”

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• Follow diligently the Way in your own heart, but make no display of it to the world.

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  Humility, Heart, Compassion

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• If good happens, good; if bad happens, good.

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  Tao Te Ching, Taoism, Tao Ching

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• When you find the way/ others will find you./ Passing by on the road/ they will be drawn to your door./ The way that cannot be heard/ will be echoed in your voice./ The way that cannot be seen/ will be reflected in your eyes.

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  Inspirational, Eye, Doors

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• (The Tao) is always present and always available. . . . If you are willing to be lived by it, you will see it everywhere, even in the most ordinary things.

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  Life, Philosophy, Taoism

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

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• The high must make the low its base.

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  Compassion, Taoism, Lows

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• The wise man looks back into the past, and does not grieve over what is far off, nor rejoice over what is near; for he knows that time is without end.

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  Wise, Past, Men

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• Creating without claiming, Doing without taking credit, Guiding without interfering, This is Primal Virtue.

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  Spiritual, Wisdom, Creating

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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• The fourth (of the four cardinal virtues) is supportiveness: this manifests as service to others without expectation of reward. (Paraphrased: Such service is not a mere conforming to some external rule of behavior, but instead a manifestation of your original nature).

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  Nature, Expectations, Four

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• Because he (the Sage) opposes no one, no one in the world can oppose him.

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  Taoism, Sage, World

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• The Master views the parts with compassion, because he understands the whole. His constant practice is humility. He doesn't glitter like a jewel but lets himself be shaped by the Tao, as rugged and common as a stone.

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  Humility, Compassion, Views

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• When much virtue is achieved, nothing is not overcome.

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  Taoism, Overcoming, Virtue

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• What people loathe the most is to be orphaned, desolate, unworthy. But this is what princes and kings call themselves.

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  Kings, People, Taoism

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• Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.

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  Water, Taoism, Enlightening

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• Things are not worth attending to, yet they have to be attended to.

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  Attending

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• So the unwanting soul sees what's hidden, and the ever-wanting soul sees only what it wants.

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  Soul, Taoism, Want

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• The most difficult in the world must be easy in its beginning.

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  Taoism, World, Easy

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• The good man is the teacher of the bad, And the bad is the material from which the good may learn. He who does not value the teacher, Or greatly care for the material, Is greatly deluded although he may be learned. Such is the essential mystery.

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  Teacher, Learning, Men

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• If you have really attained wholeness, everything will flock to you.

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  Mindfulness, Flocks, Ifs

  "Tao Teh Ching".

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• 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, Army

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• The most fundamental seems fickle.

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  Taoism, Fickle, Fundamentals

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