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Laozi Quotes - Page 17

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The world is a sacred vessel that cannot be changed. He who changes it will destroy it. He who seizes it will lose it.

The world is a sacred vessel that cannot be changed. He who changes it will destroy it. He who seizes it will lose it.

Taoism, World, Sacred

To practice virtue is to selflessly offer assistance to others, giving without limitation one's time, abilities, and possessions in service, whenever and wherever needed, without prejudice concerning the identity of those in need.

Time, Practice, Giving

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

Seeing the small is called clarity.

Taoism, Clarity, Seeing

Laozi (2015). “Daodejing: The New, Highly Readable Translation of the Life-Changing Ancient Scripture Formerly Known as the Tao Te Ching”, p.123, Open Court

To have enough of enough is always enough.

Taoism, Enough

To have little is to possess.

Life, Littles

Knowing the future is the flower of the Way, and the beginning of folly.

Flower, Knowing, Taoism

Those who stay where they are will endure.

Taoism, Endure

Nature's way is simple and easy, but men prefer the intricate and artificial.

Simple, Men, Way

Laozi, Archie J. Bahm (1996). “Tao Teh King”, p.91, Jain Publishing Company

The seed of mystery lies in muddy water. How can I perceive this mystery? Water becomes clear through stillness. How can I become still? By flowing with the stream.

Lying, Water, Mystery

The Way to do is to be.

Meditation, Taoism, Way

The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.

Inspirational, People, Too Much

Laozi, D. C. Lau (1989). “Tao Te Ching”, p.109, Chinese University Press

. . . 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.

Truth, Past, Ideas

The high must make the low its base.

Compassion, Taoism, Lows

Understand this if nothing else: spiritual freedom and oneness with the Tao are not randomly bestowed gifts, but the rewards of conscious self-transformation and self-evolution.

Spiritual, Self, Oneness

The Master views the parts with compassion, because he understands the whole. His constant practice is humility. He doesn't glitter like a jewel but lets himself be shaped by the Tao, as rugged and common as a stone.

Humility, Compassion, Views

Give evil nothing to oppose and it will disappear by itself.

Evil, Giving, Tao Te Ching

Laozi (2008). “Daodejing: A Literal-critical Translation”, University Press of Amer

He who has achieved this state Is unconcerned with friends and enemies, With good and harm, with honor and disgrace. This therefore is the highest state of man.

Friendship, Men, Honor

Laozi, Gia-fu Feng, Jane English (1972). “Tao te ching”, Random House Inc

By following this simple path, you become extraordinary, unfathomable, a being of profound cosmic subtlety. You outlive time and space by realizing the subtle truth of the universe.

Time, Truth, Simple

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

The more prohibitions you have, the less virtuous people will be. Try to make people moral, and you lay the groundwork for vice.

People, Trying, Vices

Gain or loss, what is worse?

Loss, Taoism, Gains

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

Letting Go, Heart, Forever

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

Love the whole world as if it were your self; then you will truly care for all things.

Love, Self, Taoism

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.

Mother, Sex, Heart

The sense organs, which are limited in scope and ability, randomly gather information. This partial information is arranged into judgments, which are based on previous judgments, which are usually based on someone else's foolish ideas. These false concepts and ideas are then stored in a highly selective memory system.

Memories, Ideas, Information

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

If good happens, good; if bad happens, good.

Tao Te Ching, Taoism, Tao Ching

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