Lao Tzu Quotes
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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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If you really want everything, then give up everything.
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Without going outside, you may know the whole world!
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A good door needs no lock, still it can't be opened.
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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 more prohibitions you have, the less virtuous people will be. Try to make people moral, and you lay the groundwork for vice.
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The valley spirit never dies. It is called the mystical female.
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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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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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Praise leads to weakness. Getting it causes fear, losing it causes fear.
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Marriage is three parts love and seven parts forgiveness of sins.
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Only by working within the laws that govern the flow of water will happiness be achieved.
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In ancient times, people said that imperfect moves to becoming perfect. Are these words vain? No! Truly, by gaining Unity you come to Perfection!
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Do you imagine the universe is agitated? Go into the desert at night and look out at the stars. This practice should answer the question..... The master settles her mind as the universe settles the stars in the sky. By connecting her mind with the subtle origin, she calms it. Once calmed, it naturally expands, and ultimately her mind becomes as vast and immeasurable as the night sky.
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Fine words are traded. Noble deeds gain respect. But people who are not good, why abandon them?
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The highest tone is hard to hear.
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Fame of self: Which matters more? Self or wealth: Which is more precious? Gain or loss: Which is more painful?
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Do not strive for the shine of jade, but clatter like stone.
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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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Pain and happiness are simply conditions of the ego. Forget the ego.