Lao Tzu Quotes
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As soon as rules were made, names were given. There are already many names. One must know when it is enough.
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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.
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Movement overcomes cold.
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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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If you want to be given everything, give everything up.
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As long as we have hope, we have direction, the energy to move, and the map to move by. We have a hundred alternatives, a thousand paths and an infinity of dreams. Hopeful, we are halfway to where we want to go; hopeless, we are lost forever.
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Yielding is the manner of the Way.
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Those who know are not learned. Those who are learned do not know.
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The noble must make humility his root.
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When the world is ruled according to the Way, the ghosts lose their power. The ghosts do not really lose their power, but it is not used to harm people.
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Use your own light and return to the source of light. This is called practicing eternity.
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The wise trusts not only to his physical eyes - thus he can see clearly.
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The best of all teachers is the one who helps people so that eventually they don't need him.
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Dualistic thinking is a sickness.
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The reason for great distress is the body. Without it, what distress could there be?
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These possessions of a simpleton being the three I choose and cherish: to care, to be fair, to be humble.
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Abandon wisdom, discard knowledge, and people will benefit a hundredfold.
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When good thing are accomplished, it does not claim (or name) them. This is Te, which is close in meaning to power or virtue. It is something within a person, and it is enhanced by following the Tao, or 'that from which nothing can deviate'.
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Those who are one with deprivation are deprived of deprivation.
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The Sage expects no recognition for what he does; he achieves merit but does not take it to himself; he does not wish to display his worth.
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Remember: if you can cease all restless activity, your integral nature will appear.
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Without stepping out the door, you can know the world.
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The reason why the universe is eternal is that it does not live for itself; it gives life to others as it transforms.
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The usefulness of the pot lies in its emptiness.