Taoism Quotes - Page 17

• Look at this window: it is nothing but a hole in the wall, but because of it the whole room is full of light. So when the faculties are empty, the heart is full of light.

  Zhuangzi

  Wisdom, Wall, Heart

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• The wise man does not lay up treasure. The more he expends on others, the more he gains for himself. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Wise, Wisdom

  "The Book of the Simple Way of Laotze: A New Translation from the Text of the Tao-teh-king".

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• Take time to listen to what is said without words, to obey the law too subtle to be written, to worship the unnameable and to embrace the unformed.

  Laozi

  Time, Law, Listening

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• If you correct your mind the rest of your life will fall into place.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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

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• Can you comprehend everything in the four directions and still do nothing?

  Laozi

  Four, Stills

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• What should be shrunken must first be stretched.

  Laozi

  Firsts, Should

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• Heavy is the root of light.

  Laozi

  Light, Roots, Heavy

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

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• What's the difference between beautiful and ugly?

  Laozi

  Beautiful, Differences, Ugly

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• The one who does not honor the teacher and the one who does not honor the task, although ever so knowledgeable, they are confused.

  Laozi

  Teacher, Confused, Knowledge

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• A good person is the bad person's teacher. A bad person is the good person's task.

  Laozi

  Teacher, Knowledge, Tasks

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• That so few understand me is why I am treasured.

  Laozi

  Knowledge, Understand Me, Treasured

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• My words have an origin. My deeds have a sovereign. Truly, because people do not understand this, they do not understand me.

  Laozi

  Knowledge, People, Deeds

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• My words are very easy to understand and very easy to practice; but there is no one in the world who is able to understand and practice them.

  Laozi

  Knowledge, Practice, World

  "Tao teh king (the way of peace) of Lao-Tzu".

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• Those who seek knowledge, collect something every day. Those who seek the Way, let go of something every day.

  Laozi

  Letting Go, Knowledge, Way

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• Of all things, none does not revere the Way and honor virtue. Reverence of the Way and honoring virtue were not demanded of them, but it is in their nature.

  Laozi

  Honor, Doe, Way

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• The river and the sea can be kings of a hundred valleys, because they lie below them.

  Laozi

  Kings, Lying, Sea

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• Conquering the world and changing it, I do not think it can succeed.

  Laozi

  Thinking, World, Succeed

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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.

  Laozi

  World, Want, Fit

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• When wisdom and knowledge appear, great pretense arises.

  Laozi

  Knowledge, Arise, Pretense

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• The more clever and cunning people are, the stranger the events will be.

  Laozi

  Clever, Knowledge, People

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

  Laozi

  Knowledge, People, Difficult

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• Correct becomes defect. Good becomes ominous. People's delusions have certainly lasted long.

  Laozi

  Knowledge, Long, People

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• Knowing that you do not know is the best. Not knowing that you do not know is an illness.

  Laozi

  Knowledge, Knowing, Illness

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• The sage is not ill, because he sees illness as illness.

  Laozi

  Knowledge, Sage, Illness

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• The superior student listens to the Way and follows it closely. The average student listens to the Way and follows some and some not. The lesser student listens to the Way and laughs out loud. If there were no laughter it would not be the Way.

  Laozi

  Laughter, Knowledge, Average

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