Laozi Quotes, Humility Quotes, Rivers Quotes

What makes a kingdom great is its being like a down-flowing river,--the central point towards which all the smaller streams under Heaven converge; or like the female throughout the world, who by quiescence always overcomes the male. And quiescence is a form of humility.

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Correct becomes defect. Good becomes ominous. People's delusions have certainly lasted long.

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Simple, like uncarved wood.

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The further one goes, the less (he realizes he) one knows.

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Thorn bushes grow where armies have camped.

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Once you arrive {at a spontaneous awareness of the Great Oneness}, remember: it isn't necessary to struggle to maintain unity with it. All you have to do is participate in it.

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When Simplicity is broken up, it is made into instruments. Evolved individuals who employ them, are made into leaders. In this way, the Great System is United.

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The sage is not ill, because he sees illness as illness.

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Be still. Stillness reveals the secrets of eternity

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The Tao is always at ease. It overcomes without competing, answers without speaking a word, arrives without being summoned, accomplishes without a plan. Its net covers the whole universe. And though its meshes are wide, it doesn't let a thing slip through.

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If you are untrustworthy, people will not trust you.

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Why separate your spiritual life and your practical life? To an integral being, there is no such distinction.

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I am good to people who are good. I am also good to people who are not good. Because Virtue is goodness.

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To bear and not to own; to act and not lay claim; to do the work and let it go: for just letting it go is what makes it stay.

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The Way of Tao is this: It strives not, but conquers; It speaks not, but all is made clear; It summons not, but its house is crowded; It contrives not, but the design is perfect.

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The perfect square lacks corners.

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In work, do what you enjoy.

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The eye with which you see God is the same eye with which God sees you; one in seeing; one in knowing; one in loving.

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Not-knowing is true knowledge. Presuming to know is a disease. First realize that you are sick; then you can move toward health.

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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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