Lao Tzu Quotes
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Letting the mind control the vital breath is called force.
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Face the simple fact before it comes involved. Solve the small problem before it becomes big.
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. . . Intelligence is not the same thing as wisdom.
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A good door needs no lock, still it can't be opened.
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Peacefulness is an inner sense of calm - it comes from becoming still - in order to reflect and meditate on our inner wisdom and receive answers. A peaceful heart is one that is free from worry and rouble. It's becoming quiet so we can look at things quietly so we can more clearly understand them and thus come up with creative solutions. It is learning to live in the present. Freedom from desire leads to inner peace.
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Excellent soldiers are not furious.
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As long as we have hope, we have direction, the energy to move, and the map to move by. We have a hundred alternatives, a thousand paths and an infinity of dreams. Hopeful, we are halfway to where we want to go; hopeless, we are lost forever.
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He does not seek power - yet people follow him.
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We go from birth to death. Three out of ten follow life. Three out of ten follow death. People who rush from birth to death are also three out of ten. Why is that so? Because they want to make too much of life.
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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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The Tao is told is not the Tao.
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Those who have the courage to dare will perish. Those who have the courage not to dare will live.
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Be content with an ordinary life.
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Let the country be small, and the inhabitants few.
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True words seem false.
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Hold on to the center and make up your mind to rejoice in this paradise called life.
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Pain and happiness are simply conditions of the ego. Forget the ego.
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Praise leads to weakness. Getting it causes fear, losing it causes fear.
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When family ties are disturbed, devoted children arise.
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If you can find true contentment, it will last forever.
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What's the difference between beautiful and ugly?
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Those who know others are intelligent Those who know themselves have insight. Those who master others have force Those who master themselves have strength.Those who know what is enough are wealthy. Those who persevere have direction. Those who maintain their position endure. And those who die and yet do not perish, live on.
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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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Only by working within the laws that govern the flow of water will happiness be achieved.