Taoism Quotes - Page 16

• The great image lacks shape.

  Laozi

  Shapes

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• The highest tone is hard to hear.

  Laozi

  Tone, Hard, Highest

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• Obscure, like muddy waters.

  Laozi

  Water, Obscure, Muddy

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• The perfect square lacks corners.

  Laozi

  Squares, Perfect, Corners

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• The Way is eternal. Until your last day, you are free from peril.

  Laozi

  Way, Lasts, Peril

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• The most fundamental seems fickle.

  Laozi

  Fickle, Fundamentals, Seems

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• The sturdiest virtue seems fragile.

  Laozi

  Virtue, Fragile, Seems

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• The grandest virtue seems deficient.

  Laozi

  Virtue, Seems

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• The highest virtue is not virtuous. Therefore it has virtue. The lowest virtue holds on to virtue. Therefore it has no virtue.

  Laozi

  Virtue, Virtuous, Lowest

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• I do not know its name. I call it the Way. For the lack of better words I call it great.

  Laozi

  Names, Way, Knows

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• The Way is ever nameless.

  Laozi

  Way, Nameless

  Laozi, Moss Roberts (2004). “Dao de Jing: The Book of the Way”, p.207, Univ of California Press

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• Mold clay into a bowl. The empty space makes it useful.

  Laozi

  Space, Clay, Mold

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• Cut out doors and windows for the house. The holes make it useful.

  Laozi

  Cutting, Doors, House

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• Stop thinking, and end your problems.

  Laozi

  Thinking, Tao Te Ching, Problem

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• Although he travels all day, the sage never loses sight of his luggage carts.

  Laozi

  Sight, Sage, Carts

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• By letting go, it all gets done.

  Laozi

  Letting Go, Inspiration, Acceptance

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• Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Knives, Simplicity

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• The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest.

  Laozi

  Flower, Careers, Two

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• Without stirring abroad, One can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window One can see the way of heaven. The further one goes The less one knows.

  Laozi

  Heaven, Looking For Love, World

  Laozi, D. C. Lau (1989). “Tao Te Ching”, p.69, Chinese University Press

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• I do not act, and people become reformed by themselves.

  Laozi

  People

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

  Laozi

  Country, War, Justice

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• The sage knows without traveling, perceives without looking, completes without acting.

  Laozi

  Acting, Sage, Perceive

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• The Tao is near and people seek it far away.

  Mencius

  People, Effort, Far Away

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• Can you dissolve your ego? Can you abandon the idea of self and other? Can you relinquish the notions of male and female, short and long, life and death? Can you let go of all these dualities and embrace the Tao without skepticism or panic? If so, you can reach the heart of the Integral Oneness.

  Laozi

  Letting Go, Heart, Self

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

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• If you can let go of (the Tao) with your mind and surround it with your heart, it will live inside you forever.

  Laozi

  Letting Go, Heart, Forever

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

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