Taoism Quotes - Page 27

• The Great Tao flows everywhere, to the left and to the right, all things depend on it to exist, and it does not abandon them. To its accomplishments it lays no claims. It loves and nourished all things, but does not lord it over them.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Accomplishment, Doe

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• Peace and quiet are preferred. Victory should not be praised.

  Laozi

  Victory, Quiet, Should

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• You should be forgiving when others make mistakes, but not when the mistakes are in you. You should be patient under duress yourself, but not when it affects others.

  Zicheng Hong

  Mistake, Forgiving, Duress

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• The fish cannot leave the deep waters. The state's weaponry should not be displayed.

  Laozi

  Deep Water, States, Weaponry

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• When your mind is empty of prejudices you can see the Tao. When your heart is empty of desires you can follow the Tao.

  Lu Jun Hong

  Heart, Mind, Desire

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• When bitter enemies make peace, surely some bitterness remains.

  Laozi

  Enemy, Bitterness, Making Peace

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• Lao-tze's Taoism is the exhibition of a way or method of living which men should cultivate as the highest and purest development of their nature.

  James Legge

  Men, Laos, Exhibitions

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• What we mean by Tao is the way or course of Nature. This way has nothing good or bad, it is a mere flowing of things following the development and decline attributes of the moment.

  Jian Yang

  Mean, Development, Way

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• Taoism ... is the Religion of the Tao, a term meaning Path or Way, but denoting in this peculiar case the way, course or movement of the Universe, her processes and methods. In other words, Taoism is the Religion of Heaven and Earth, of the Cosmos, of the World or Nature in the broadest sense of these words. Hence we may call it Naturism.

  Jan Jakob Maria de Groot

  Heaven, Peculiar, Cosmos

  Jan Jakob Maria de Groot (1892). “The Religious System of China: Its Ancient Forms, Evolution, History and Present Aspects, Manners, Custom and Social Institutions Connected Therewith”, p.66, Brill Archive

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• The sage embraces the one, and is an example to the world.

  Laozi

  Example, Sage, World

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• After one has been in a lowly position, one knows how dangerous it is to climb to a high place, Once one has been in the dark, one knows how revealing it is to go into the light. Having maintained quietude, one knows how tiring compulsive activity is. Having nurtured silence, one knows how disturbing much talk is.

  Zicheng Hong

  Dark, Light, Silence

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• To conquer demons, first conquer your mind. When the mind is subdued, demons withdraw obediently. To control knaves, first control your own mood. When your mood is balanced, scoundrels cannot get at you.

  Zicheng Hong

  Mind, Firsts, Knaves

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• Abandon knowledge and your worries are over.

  Laozi

  Knowledge, Worry, Abandon

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

  Laozi

  Knowledge, Understanding, Mind

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• Those who act on excitement act intermittently; this is hardly the way to avoid regression. Those whose understanding comes from emotional perceptions are as confused as they are enlightened; this is not a lamp that is constantly bright.

  Zicheng Hong

  Confused, Emotional, Understanding

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• One of our predecessors said, "Throwing away the inexhaustible treasury of your own home, you go with your bowl from door to door, acting like a beggar"

  Zicheng Hong

  Home, Doors, Acting

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• Business and scholarship pass away with the person, but the soul is forever like new. Fame and fortune change with the generations, but the spirit is always the same. Enlightened people surely should not exchange the lasting for the ephemeral.

  Zicheng Hong

  People, Forever, Soul

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• At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.

  Laozi

  Life, Spiritual, Self Esteem

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• When the great Tao is abandoned, benevolence and righteousness arise.

  Laozi

  Abandoned, Arise, Righteousness

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

  Laozi

  Order, Profound, Virtue

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• The greatest virtue is to follow the Way utterly.

  Laozi

  Way, Virtue

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• If I have just an ounce of sense, I follow the great Way, and fear only to stray from it.

  Laozi

  Way, Ifs

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• When the rich and well-established, who should be generous, are instead spiteful and cruel, they make their behavior wretched and base in spite of their wealth and position. When the intellectually brilliant, who should be reserved, instead show off, they are ignorant and foolish in their weakness in spite of their brilliance.

  Zicheng Hong

  Ignorant, Weakness, Brilliant

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• Hold on to the great image, and the whole world follows, follows unharmed, content and completely at peace.

  Laozi

  World, Whole, Whole World

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• Those who know are not learned. Those who are learned do not know.

  Laozi

  Knowledge, Knows

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