Lao Tzu Quotes
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Creating without claiming, Doing without taking credit, Guiding without interfering, This is Primal Virtue.
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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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Realize thy Simple Self, Embrace thy Original Nature.
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Praise leads to weakness. Getting it causes fear, losing it causes fear.
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Without the tao, Kindness and compassion are replaced by law and justice; Faith and trust are supplanted by ritual and ceremony.
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The more you know the less you understand.
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Giving birth and nourishing, Bearing yet not possessing, Working yet not taking credit, Leading yet not dominating, This is the Primal Virtue.
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Allow your softer, more intuitive, and less dominating feminine qualities to rise to the fore, so that you're surrendering rather than dominating, receiving rather than broadcasting, loving rather than fighting.
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The transformation toward eternal life is gradual. The heavy gross energy of body, mind, and spirit must first be purified and uplifted. When the energy ascends... then self mastery can be sought.
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The valley spirit never dies. It is called the mystical female.
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Man is ruled by Earth. Earth is ruled by Heaven. Heaven is ruled by the Way. The Way is ruled by itself.
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Be as the still mountain; Move like the great river.
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It (Tao) is eternally without desire. So, it can be called small. All things return to it, although it does not make itself their ruler. So, it can be called great.
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Marriage is three parts love and seven parts forgiveness of sins.
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We are all capable of much more than we think we are.
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The difficult problems in life always start off being simple. Great affairs always start off being small.
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It is wisdom to know others. It is enlightenment to know oneself.
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Water does not force its way.
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Without going outside, you may know the whole world!
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The liberation cannot be reached but by means of the perception of the identity of the individual spirit with the universal spirit.
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The Way to do is to be.
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Why not simply honor your parents, love your children, help your brothers and sisters, be faithful to your friends, care for your mate with devotion, complete your work cooperatively and joyfully, assume responsibility for problems, practice virtue without first demanding it of others, understand the highest truths yet retain an ordinary manner? That would be true clarity, true simplicity, true mastery.
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Knowing others is to be clever. Knowing yourself is to be enlightened. Overcoming others requires force. Overcoming yourself requires strength.
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Do not strive for the shine of jade, but clatter like stone.