Laozi Quotes, Life Quotes, Thinking Quotes

Don't think you can attain total awareness and whole enlightenment without proper discipline and practice. This is egomania. Appropriate rituals channel your emotions and life energy toward the light. Without the discipline to practice them, you will tumble constantly backward into darkness.

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. . . the integral being is attached to nothing and can relate to everyone with an unstructured attitude. Because of this, her very existence benefits all things.

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All things such as grass and trees are soft and supple in life. At their death they are withered and dry.

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Use the Light that dwells within you to regain your natural clarity of sight.

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The living are soft and yielding; the dead are rigid and stiff. Living plants are flexible and tender; the dead are brittle and dry.

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Battles are followed by years of famine.

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Heaven's Way does not contend, yet it certainly triumphs. It does not speak, yet it certainly answers. It does not summon, yet things come by themselves. It seems to be at rest, yet it certainly has a plan.

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If you can let go of (the Tao) with your mind and surround it with your heart, it will live inside you forever.

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The more prohibitions you have, the less virtuous people will be. The more weapons you have, the less secure people will be. The more subsidies you have, the less self reliant people will be.

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Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.

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If princes and kings were not exalted they might be overthrown.

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Those who would take over the earth and shape it to their will, never, I notice succeed.

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What the Way is to the world, the stream is to the river and the sea.

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Those who show off do not shine.

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Peace and quiet are preferred. Victory should not be praised.

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I let go of all desire for the common good, and the good becomes as common as the grass.

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Solve it before it happens. Order it before chaos emerges.

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All things in nature work silently. They come into being and possess nothing. They fulfill their function and make no claim. All things alike do their work, and then we see them subside. When they have reached their bloom, each returns to its origin. . . . This reversion is an eternal law. To know that law is wisdom.

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Weapons are instruments of fear; they are not a wise man's tools. He uses them only when he has no choice.

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The great Way is easy, yet people prefer the side paths. Be aware when things are out of balance. Stay centered within the Tao.

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