Lao Tzu Quotes
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In dwelling, be close to the land. In meditation, go deep in the heart. In dealing with others, be gentle and kind. In speech, be true. In ruling, be just. In daily life, be competent. In action, be aware of the time and the season.
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Be who you are, and go the whole way.
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He does not praise himself - yet he is respectable.
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Free from desire, you realize the mystery.
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Thirty spokes are joined in the wheel's hub. The hole in the middle makes it useful.
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Can you dissolve your ego? Can you abandon the idea of self and other? Can you relinquish the notions of male and female, short and long, life and death? Can you let go of all these dualities and embrace the Tao without skepticism or panic? If so, you can reach the heart of the Integral Oneness.
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Those who are quiet value the words. When their task is completed, people will say: We did it ourselves.
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The value comes from what is there, but the use comes from what is not there.
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All men desire to free themselves solely from death; they do not know how to free themselves from life.
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The master accomplishes more and more by doing less and less until finally he accomplishes everything by doing nothing.
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From What-is all the world of things was born But What-is sprang in turn from What-is-not.
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Throw away sacredness and wisdom and people will be one hundred times happier.
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When nothing is done, nothing is left undone.
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The sage knows himself, but does not parade. He cherishes himself, but does not praise himself.
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The farther you go, the less you know.
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To be learned, add something each day. To be enlightened drop something each day.
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People who have to fight for their living and are not afraid to die for it are higher persons than those who, stationed high, are too fat to dare to die.
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Nothing is weaker than water, Yet for overcoming what is hard and strong, Nothing surpasses it.
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Prepare while it's easy.
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The sage does not strive to be great. Thereby he can accomplish the great.
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Dualistic thinking is a sickness.
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Find a teacher who is an integral being, a beacon who extends his light and virtue with equal ease to those who appreciate him and those who don't. Shape yourself in his mold, bathe in his nourishing radiance, and reflect it out to the rest of the world.
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Movement overcomes cold.
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The reason why rivers and seas are able to be lords over a hundred mountain streams, is that they know how to keep below them. That is why they are able to reign over all the mountain streams.