Lao Tzu Quotes
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Therefore: In dwelling, choose modest quarters, in thinking, value stillness, in dealing with others, be kind, in choosing words, be sincere, in leading, be just, in working, be competent, in acting, choose the correct timing. Follow these words and there will be no error.
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The purpose of life is the investigation of the Sun, the Moon, and the heavens.
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To be of few words is natural.
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Knowing the bright, but clinging to the dark, you become a model to the world.
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Going back to the origin is called peace; it means reversion to destiny. Reversion to destiny is called eternity. Those who know eternity are called enlightened.
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The small is easy to scatter.
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Keep behind, and you shall be put in front; keep out, and you shall be kept in.
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For knowledge, add something every day. For wisdom....subtract.
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Simplicity has no name is free of desires. Being free of desires it is tranquil. And the world will be at peace of it's own accord.
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Approach your own inner life with a loving quality that accepts who you are without trying to change who you are.
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A good athlete can enter a state of body-awareness in which the right stroke or the right movement happens by itself, effortlessly, without any interference of the conscious will. This is a paradigm for non-action: the purest and most effective form of action. The game plays the game; the poem writes the poem; we can't tell the dancer from the dance. It happens when we trust the intelligence of the universe in the same way that an athlete or a dancer trusts the superior intelligence of the body.
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There are many paths to enlightenment. Be sure to take the one with a heart.
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Where there is no conflict, there is no fault.
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To produce things and to rear them, To produce, but not to take possession of them, To act, but not to rely on one's own ability, To lead them, but not to master them - This is called profound and secret virtue.
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Not-knowing is true knowledge. Presuming to know is a disease. First realize that you are sick; then you can move toward health.
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Things are not worth attending to, yet they have to be attended to.
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The more laws that are written, the more criminals are produced.
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Meandering leads to perfection.
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The sage does not strive to be great. Thereby he can accomplish the great.
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When you stand with your two feet on the ground, you will always keep your balance.