Lao Tzu Quotes
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Thorn bushes grow where armies have camped.
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Greed is costly. Assembled fortunes are lost.
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Thus it is that "Some things are increased by being diminished, others are diminished by being increased." What others have taught, I also teach; verily, I will make it the root of my teaching.
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Every human being's essential nature is perfect and faultless, but after years of immersion in the world we easily forget our roots and take on a counterfeit nature.
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Human being's essential nature is perfect and faultless.
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Leadership is your ability to hide your panic from others.
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The Tao gives birth to One. One gives birth to yin and yang. Yin and yang give birth to all things... The complete whole is the complete whole. So also is any part the complete whole... But forget about understanding and harmonizing and making all things one. The universe is already a harmonious oneness; just realize it.
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The virtuous carry out the settlement, but those without virtue pursue their claims.
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Close your mouth, block off your senses, blunt your sharpness, untie your knots, soften your glare, settle your dust. This is the primal identity.
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. . . learn to value what is important today in the subtle realm rather than what appears desirable tomorrow in the worldly realm.
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Freedom from desire leads to inner peace.
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One's own self or material goods, which has more worth? Loss (of self) or possession (of goods), which is the greater evil? He who loves most, spends most, He who hoards much loses much.
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Those who praise victory relish manslaughter. Those who relish manslaughter cannot reach their goals in the world.
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Practice non-action. Work without doing.
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The seed of mystery lies in muddy water. How can I perceive this mystery? Water becomes clear through stillness. How can I become still? By flowing with the stream.
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Attending fully and becoming supple, Can you be as a newborn babe?
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A climb of eight hundred feet starts where the foot stands.
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Hear no evil. See no evil. Speak no evil.
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Use justice to rule a country. Use surprise to wage war. Use non-action to govern the world.
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If you have really attained wholeness, everything will flock to you.