Lao Tzu Quotes
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Can you gather your vital breath and yet be tender like a newborn baby?
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Whoever is capable of knowing when they have had enough will always be satisfied.
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Without looking through the window, you can see Heaven's Way.
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The great Way is easy, yet people prefer the side paths. Be aware when things are out of balance. Stay centered within the Tao.
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True words are not pleasing. Pleasing words are not true.
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Confidence is the greatest friend.
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Empty your mind of all thoughts. Let your heart be at peace. Watch the turmoil of beings, but contemplate their return. Each separate being in the universe returns to the common source. Returning to the source is serenity. If you don't realize the source, you stumble in confusion and sorrow. When you realize where you come from, you naturally become tolerant, disinterested, amused, kindhearted as a grandmother, dignified as a king. Immersed in the wonder of the Tao, you can deal with whatever life brings you, and when death comes, you are ready.
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People take death lightly. They expect too much of life. That is why people take death lightly.
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If lightning is the anger of the gods, then the gods are concerned mostly about trees.
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When the people of the world all know beauty as beauty, There arises the recognition of ugliness. When they all know the good as good, There arises the recognition of evil.
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What resists, persists.
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Those who are self-righteous are not prominent.
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Not all spiritual paths lead to the harmonious Oneness. Indeed, most are detours and distractions, nothing more.
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The wise cares about everyone, and he becomes an example to all.
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The sage does not strive to be great. Thereby he can accomplish the great.
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Few things under heaven bring more benefit than the lessons learned from silence and the actions taken without striving.
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When pure sincerity forms within, it is outwardly realized in other people's hearts.
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There are three layers to the universe. In the lower, Tai Ching, and the middle, Shan Ching, the hindrance of a physical bodily existence is required. Those who fail to live consistently in accord with the Tao reside here. In the upper, Yu Ching, there is only Tao: the bondage of form is broken, and the only thing existing is the exquisite energy dance of the immortal divine beings.
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Heaven's Way gives no favors. It always remains with good people.
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To manage your mind, know that there is nothing, and then relinquish all attachment to nothingness.
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A good manager is best when people barely know that he exists. Not so good when people obey and acclaim him. Worse when they despise him.
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The ego is entranced by ... names and ideas... However names and concepts only block your perception of this Great Oneness. Therefore it is wise to ignore them. Those who live inside their egos are continually bewildered.
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The most able seems clumsy.
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Acting without design, occupying oneself without making a business of it, finding the great in what is small and the many in the few, repaying injury with kindness, effecting difficult things while they are easy, and managing great things in their beginnings; this is the method of Tao.