Laozi Quotes, Tao Te Ching Quotes, Taoism Quotes

The Tao is like a well; used but never used up.

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The world's beginning is its mother. To have found the mother is also to know the children. Although you know the children, cling to the mother. Until your last day you will not be harmed.

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People aren't against you; they are for themselves. The most dangerous risk of all - the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later. He who conquers others is strong, he who conquers himself is mighty.

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Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.

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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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Going back to the origin is called peace; it means reversion to destiny. Reversion to destiny is called eternity. Those who know eternity are called enlightened.

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Racing and hunting excite man's heart to madness.

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Wise men hear and see as little children do.

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A tree that cannot bend will crack in the wind. Thus by nature's own decree, the soft and gentle are triumphant.

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To become learned, each day add something. To become enlightened, each day drop something

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Who has excess and supplies the world? Only the one who follows the Way.

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The Tao of the sage is work without effort.

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Having reached a high level of realization (or having accomplished anything in life), don't get excited or puffed up with pride but remain calm, humble, and in "perfect equanimity" if you want to continue in this deep state of consciousness.

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The great Way is all-pervading. It reaches to the left and to the right. All things depend on it with their existence. Still it demands no obedience.

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It is hidden but always present.

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. . . the mind is desperate to fix the river {of events} in place: Possessed by ideas of the past, preoccupied with images of the future, it overlooks the plain truth of the moment.

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When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

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The Tao which you know is not the eternal Tao

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Abandon fancy theologies and imaginary ideas and do some ordinary daily work... {Engage in this work with} unswerving kindness and unending patience.

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Rule a kingdom as though you were cooking a small fish - don't overdo it.

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