Lao Tzu Quotes
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To rule by knowledge ravages the country.
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Time is a created thing. To say 'I don't have time' is to say 'I don't want to.'
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The group will not prosper if the leader grabs the lion's share of the credit for the good work that has been done.
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When superior people hear of the Way, they carry it out with diligence. When middling people hear of the Way, it sometimes seems to be there, sometimes not. When lesser people hear of the Way, they ridicule it greatly. If they didn't laugh at it, it wouldn't be the Way.
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He who is attached to things will suffer much.
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That so few understand me is why I am treasured.
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So sometimes things are ahead and sometimes they are behind; Sometimes breathing is hard, sometimes it comes easily; Sometimes there is strength and sometimes weakness; Sometimes one is up and sometimes down. Therefore the sage avoids extremes, excesses, and complacency.
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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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Be as the still mountain; Move like the great river.
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Those who boast are not respected.
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If you worry more for others' beliefs, then you will be their slave.
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Try to change it and you will ruin it. Try to hold it and you will lose it.
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The progress of the Way seems retreating.
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When goodness is lost, it is replaced by morality.
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There is nothing softer and weaker than water, and yet there is nothing better for attacking hard and strong things.
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If you want everything, you first have to give everything up.
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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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The Way is eternal. Until your last day, you are free from peril.
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. . . integral wisdom involves a direct participation in every moment: the observer and the observed are dissolved in the light of pure awareness, and no mental concepts or attitudes are present to dim that light.
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No thought, no action, no movement, total stillness: only thus can one manifest the true nature and law of things from within and unconsciously, and at last become one with heaven and earth.