Lao Tzu Quotes
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Can you make your soul embrace the One and not lose it?
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If good happens, good; if bad happens, good.
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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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When you realize where you come from, you naturally become tolerant, amused, kindhearted as a grandmother, and dignified as a king. Immersed in wonder, you can deal with whatever life brings you, and when death comes, you are ready.
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The valley spirit never dies. It is called the mystical female.
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That which is achieved the most, still has the whole of its future yet to be achieved.
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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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When goodness is lost, it is replaced by morality.
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All action begins in rest... This is the ultimate truth.
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Make the small big and the few many.
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The Way to do is to be.
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Instead of being afraid of death, we should try to awake to life; and the only death we should escape from is to forget the presence of God into us.
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The most complete seems lacking. Yet in use it is not exhausted.
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When you have accomplished your goal simply walk away. This is the path way to Heaven.
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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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Time is a created thing. To say 'I don't have time' is to say 'I don't want to.'
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Because he is a living divinity, when he acts, the universe acts.
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The Way that can be walked is not the eternal Way.
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Everything in the universe is created from something, which in turn is created from nothing.
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Stop thinking, and end your problems. What difference between yes and no? What difference between success and failure? Must you value what others value, avoid what others avoid? How ridiculous!
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Why is the sea king of a hundred streams? Because it lies below them... If the sage would guide the people, he must serve with humility. If he would lead them, he must follow behind. In this way when the sage rules, the people will not feel oppressed.
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He does not praise himself - yet he is respectable.
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If you attach yourself to gross energies - loving this person, hating that clan, rejecting one experience or habitually indulging in another - then you will lead a series of heavy, attached lives. This can go on for a very long and tedious time.
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. . . Intelligence is not the same thing as wisdom.