Lao Tzu Quotes
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The surest test if a person be sane, is if she accepts life whole, as it is.
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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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If you really want everything, then give up everything.
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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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Try to change it and you will ruin it. Try to hold it and you will lose it.
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Praise leads to weakness. Getting it causes fear, losing it causes fear.
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Without going outside, you may know the whole world!
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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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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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When you have accomplished your goal simply walk away. This is the path way to Heaven.
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Only by working within the laws that govern the flow of water will happiness be achieved.
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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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The valley spirit never dies. It is called the mystical female.
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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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Marriage is three parts love and seven parts forgiveness of sins.
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The highest tone is hard to hear.
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Creating without claiming, Doing without taking credit, Guiding without interfering, This is Primal Virtue.
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It is wisdom to know others. It is enlightenment to know oneself.
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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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When goodness is lost, it is replaced by morality.
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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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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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Man is ruled by Earth. Earth is ruled by Heaven. Heaven is ruled by the Way. The Way is ruled by itself.