Lao Tzu Quotes
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The one who can dissolve her mind will suddenly discover the Tao at her feet.
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The truest sayings are paradoxical.
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Abandon cleverness, discard profit, and thieves and robbers will disappear.
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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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The best leaders are those their people hardly know exist. The next best is a leader who is loved and praised. Next comes the one who is feared. The worst one is the leader that is despised ... The best leaders value their words, and use them sparingly. When they have accomplished their task, the people say, "Amazing! We did it, all by ourselves!
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The reality of the building does not consist in the roof and walls, but in the space within to be lived in.
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Deal with the small before it becomes large.
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Stillness is easy to maintain.
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As soon as you have made a thought, laugh at it.
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The Tao principle is what happens of itself.
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The real art of governing consists, so far as possible, in doing nothing.
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Returning to the source is stillness. It is returning to one's fate. Returning to one's fate is eternal.
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If you close your mind in judgements and traffic with desires, your heart will be troubled. If you keep your mind from judging and aren't led by the senses, your heart will find peace.
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If Heaven were not clear it might rend. If Earth were not firm it might crumble.
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In dwelling, be close to the land. In meditation, go deep in the heart.
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The Tao never acts with force, yet there is nothing that it can not do.
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With that gentleness I can be bold; with that economy I can be liberal; shrinking from taking precedence of others, I can become a vessel of the highest honour.
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When the palace is magnificent, the fields are filled with weeds, and the granaries are empty.
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Truly, only those who see illness as illness can avoid illness.
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Silence is a source of great strenght.
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Throw away profit and greed, and there won't be any thieves.
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In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple.
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The eye with which you see God is the same eye with which God sees you; one in seeing; one in knowing; one in loving.
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Tao loves and nourishes all things, but does not dominate it over them.