Lao Tzu Quotes
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Everything will settle in its own place automatically.
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Truly, only those who see illness as illness can avoid illness.
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Return animosity with virtue.
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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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When a country is in harmony with the Tao, the factories make trucks and tractors. When a country goes counter to the Tao, warheads are stockpiled outside the cities. There is no greater illusion than fear, no greater wrong than preparing to defend yourself, no greater misfortune than having an enemy. Whoever can see through all fear will always be safe.
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The sage does not strive to be great. Thereby he can accomplish the great.
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Understanding others is knowledge, Understanding oneself is enlightenment; Conquering others is power, Conquering oneself is strength.
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True power is stillness within motion.
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The female always surpasses the male with stillness. In her stillness she is yielding.
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He does not feel pity for himself - thus he can successfully develop.
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Those who would take over the earth and shape it to their will, never, I notice succeed.
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Eliminate mental muddiness and obscurity; keep your mind crystal clear. Allow your pure original insight to emerge. Quiet your emotions and abide in serenity. Don't go crazy with the worship of idols, images, and ideas; this is like putting a new head on top of the head you already have. Remember: if you can cease all restless activity, your integral nature will appear.
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The leader is a teacher who succeeds without taking credit. And, because credit is not taken, credit is received.
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Ancient masters of excellence had a subtle essence, and a depth too profound to comprehend.
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Understand this if nothing else: spiritual freedom and oneness with the Tao are not randomly bestowed gifts, but the rewards of conscious self-transformation and self-evolution.
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The more laws and orders are multiplied, the more theft and violence increase.
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I am at peace, and people become fair by themselves.
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When you let go of what you are, you become what you might be.
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Knowing that we don't know it's humility; thinking that we know what we don't know, is sickness.
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The way to use life is to do nothing through acting, The way to use life is to do everything through being.
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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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Seal the openings, shut the doors, dull the sharpness, untie the knots, dim the light, become one with the dust. This is called the profound union.
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Watch your thoughts, they become words.
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What is well planted will not be uprooted.