Laozi Quotes, Vanity Quotes, Taoism Quotes

Some have lavish garments, carry sharp swords, and feast on food and drink. They possess more than they can spend. This is called the vanity of robbers. It is certainly not the Way.

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Supreme good is like water. Water greatly benefits all things, without conflict. It flows through places that people loathe. Thereby it is close to the Way.

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The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth.

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When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.

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Although most people spend their entire lives following this biological impulse (i.e. the sex drive), it is only a tiny portion of our beings. . . . If we remain obsessed with seeds and eggs, we are married to the fertile reproductive valley of the Mysterious Mother but not to her immeasurable heart and all-knowing mind.

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The cords of passion and desire weave a binding net around you. Worldly confrontation makes you stiff and inflexible. The trap of duality is tenacious. Bound, rigid, and trapped, you cannot experience liberation.

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Those who stand on their toes are not steady.

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...The sage, traveling all day, Does not lose sight of his baggage. Though there are beautiful things to be seen, He remains unattached and calm.

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The wise man doesn't compete; therefore nobody can compete with him.

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[The Master] doesn't glitter like a jewel... [but is] as rugged and common as a stone.

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The eternal void is filled with infinite possibilities

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Tao is beyond words and beyond understanding. Words may be used to speak of it, but they cannot contain it. Tao existed before words and names, before heaven and earth, before the ten thousand things. It is the unlimited father and mother of all limited things. Therefore, to see beyond boundaries to the subtle heart of things, dispense with names, with concepts, with expectations and ambitions and differences. Tao and its many manifestations arise from the same source: subtle wonder within mysterious darkness. This is the beginning of all understanding.

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Learn from the people. Plan with the people. Begin with what they have. Build on what they know.

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The wise does not think that only he is right -thus he knows the truth.

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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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I alone am different from the others, because I am nourished by the great mother.

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In the world there are four greats, and the king is one of them.

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Although he travels all day, the sage never loses sight of his luggage carts.

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. . . learn to value what is important today in the subtle realm rather than what appears desirable tomorrow in the worldly realm.

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The skillful traveller leaves no traces of his wheels.

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