Laozi Quotes - Page 52

• The tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao The name that can be named is not the eternal Name. The unnamable is the eternally real. Naming is the origin of all particular things. Free from desire, you realize the mystery. Caught in desire, you see only the manifestations. Yet mystery and manifestations arise from the same source. This source is called darkness. Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

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  Real, Names, Darkness Within

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• To know yet to think that one does not know is best;
  Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

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  Inspirational, Motivation, Learning

  Laozi, D. C. Lau (1989). “Tao Te Ching”, p.105, Chinese University Press

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• It is fitting for a great nation to yield.

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  Yield, Tao, Fitting

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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• What is a good man? A teacher of a bad man. What is a bad man? A good man's charge?

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  Teacher, Men, Good Man

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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• She who is centered in the Tao can go where she wishes, without danger. She perceives the universal harmony, even amid great pain, because she has found peace in her heart. Music or the smell of good cooking may make people stop and enjoy. But words that point to the Tao seem monotonous and without flavor. When you look for it, there is nothing to see. When you listen for it, there is nothing to hear. When you use it, it is inexhaustible.

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  Pain, Heart, Smell

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• Clay is fashioned into vessels; it is on their empty hollowness that their use depends. Doors and windows are cut out to make a dwelling, and on the empty space within, its use depends. Thus, while the existence of things may be good, it is the non-existence in them that makes them serviceable.

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  Cutting, Dwelling, Space

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• To consider this desirable would be to delight in the slaughter of men; and he who delights in the slaughter of men cannot get his will in the kingdom.

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  Men, Would Be, Delight

  Laozi (2015). “Tao Te Ching”, p.31, Booklassic

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• Know honor, Yet keep humility. Be the valley of the universe! Being the valley of the universe, Ever true and resourceful, Return to the state of the uncarved block.

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  Block, Humility, Honor

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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• The leader is best, When people are hardly aware of his existence, Not so good when people praise his government, Less good when people stand in fear, Worst, when people are contemptuous. Fail to honor people, and they will fail to honor you. But of a good leader, who speaks little, When his work is done, his aim fulfilled, The people say, 'We did it ourselves.'

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  Inspirational, Government, People

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• You should rule a great country As you would fry a small fish- With the least turning.

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  Country, Should, Fishes

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• It is because every one tinder Heaven recognizes beauty as beauty that the idea of ugliness exists.

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  Beauty, Ideas, Heaven

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• Heaven is eternal and Earth everlasting. They can be eternal and everlasting because they do not exist for themselves, And for this reason can exist forever.

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  Forever, Heaven, Earth

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• The best of all rulers is but a shadowy presence to his subjects.

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  Leadership, Subjects, Rulers

  Laozi, D. C. Lau (1989). “Tao Te Ching”, p.31, Chinese University Press

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• The people suffer from famine because of the multitude of taxes consumed by their superiors. It is through this that they suffer famine.

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  People, Suffering, Taxes

  Colin Bradshaw-Jones, Laozi, Lao Tzu (2006). “The Tao Te Ching, Eighty-one Maxims from the Father of Taoism”, p.100, Lulu.com

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• Spokes unite in the hub of a wheel.

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  Wheels, Spokes, Hub

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• A terrace nine stories high begins with a pile of earth.

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  Time, Stories, Earth

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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• To lead people, walk behind them.

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  Leadership, Business, People

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• Man at his birth is supple and tender, but in death, he is rigid and hard. Thus, suppleness and tenderness accompany life, but rigidity and hardness accompany death.

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  Men, Birth, Rigidity

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• Who can wait quietly until the mud settles? Who can remain still until the moment of action?

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  Patience, Waiting, Mud

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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• If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.

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  Love, Inspirational, Lying

  "An Essential Part of Being'" by Brian Weatherley, November 12, 2010.

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• Obscure, like muddy waters.

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  Water, Taoism, Obscure

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• The whole world says that my Way is great like nothing else. It is great because it is like nothing else. If it were like everything else, it would long ago have become insignificant.

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  Long Ago, Taoism, World

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• Profound virtue is indeed deep and wide. It leads all things back to the great order.

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  Order, Profound, Taoism

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• Let people return to making knots on ropes, instead of writing.

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  Writing, People, Taoism

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• Those who are quiet value the words. When their task is completed, people will say: We did it ourselves.

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  People, Taoism, Tasks

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