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Laozi Quotes - Page 15

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If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

Inspirational, Change, Success

...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.

Beautiful, Sight, Doe

Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

Empty your mind of all thoughts.

Loss, Mind, Empty

Because every portion of the body, mind, and spirit yearns for the integration of yin and yang, angelic intercourse is led by the spirit rather than the sexual organs. . . . Where ordinary intercourse unites sex organs with sex organs, angelic cultivation unites spirit with spirit, mind with mind, and every cell of one body with every cell of the other body.

Sex, Cells, Mind

Displaying riches and titles with pride brings about one's downfall.

Pride, Taoism, Titles

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

Light, Sight, Meditation

Nothing in the world is as soft and yielding as water. Yet for dissolving the hard and inflexible, nothing can surpass it. The soft overcomes the hard; the gentle overcomes the rigid. Everyone knows this is true, but few can put it into practice. Therefore the Master remains serene in the midst of sorrow. Evil cannot enter his heart. Because he has given up helping, he is people's greatest help. True words seem paradoxical.

Strength, Truth, Heart

The Tao gives birth to One. One gives birth to yin and yang. Yin and yang give birth to all things... The complete whole is the complete whole. So also is any part the complete whole... But forget about understanding and harmonizing and making all things one. The universe is already a harmonious oneness; just realize it.

Oneness, Giving, Understanding

Without law or compulsion, men would dwell in harmony.

Peace, Men, Law

Laozi (1997). “Tao Te Ching”, p.33, Wordsworth Editions

Learn to lead in a nourishing manner. Learn to lead without being possessive. Learn to be helpful without taking the credit. Learn to lead without coercion.

Volunteer, Credit, Coercion

The ego is entranced by ... names and ideas... However names and concepts only block your perception of this Great Oneness. Therefore it is wise to ignore them. Those who live inside their egos are continually bewildered.

Wise, Block, Names

See others as yourself. See families as your family. See towns as your town. See countries as your country. See worlds as your world.

Country, Compassion, Taoism

Without the tao, Kindness and compassion are replaced by law and justice; Faith and trust are supplanted by ritual and ceremony.

Kindness, Compassion, Law

Things are not worth attending to, yet they have to be attended to.

Attending

Use justice to rule a country. Use surprise to wage war. Use non-action to govern the world.

Country, War, Justice

There is no calamity greater than lightly engaging in war.

War, Calamity, Engaging

Colin Bradshaw-Jones, Laozi, Lao Tzu (2006). “The Tao Te Ching, Eighty-one Maxims from the Father of Taoism”, p.94, Lulu.com

. . . These are notions of the mind, which is like a knife, always chipping away at the Tao, trying to render it graspable and manageable. But that which is beyond form is ungraspable, and that which is beyond knowing is unmanageable. There is, however, this consolation: She who lets go of the knife will find the Tao at her fingertips.

Letting Go, Knowing, Knives

Laozi, Brian Browne Walker (1992). “Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu”

Do you want to improve the world? I don't think it can be done. The world is sacred. It can't be improved. If you tamper with it, you'll ruin it. If you treat it like an object, you'll lose it. There is a time for being ahead, a time for being behind; a time for being in motion, a time for being at rest; a time for being vigorous, a time for being exhausted; a time for being safe, a time for being in danger. The Master sees things as they are, without trying to control them. She lets them go their own way, and resides at the center of the circle.

Thinking, Circles, Trying

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

Life, Spiritual, Being There

Laozi, Brian Browne Walker (1992). “Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu”

He who knows himself is enlightened.

Inspirational, Hypocrisy, Taoism

Laozi (2002). “Tao Te Ching: The Way of Virtue”, p.45, Square One Publishers, Inc.

Surrender your self-interest. Love others as much as you love yourself. Then you can be entrusted with all things under heaven.

Inspirational, Love You, Self

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.

Life, Thinking, Light

Laozi, Brian Browne Walker (1992). “Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu”

I find good people good And I find bad people good If I am good enough.

People, Good Enough, Goodness

Those who know do not speak; Those who speak do not know. Stop up the openings, Close down the doors, Rub off the sharp edges. Unravel all confusion. Harmonize the light, Give up contention: This is called finding the unity of life.

Giving Up, Light, Doors

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.

Inspirational, Life, Passion

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