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Laozi Quotes - Page 22

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Use your own light and return to the source of light. This is called practicing eternity.

Use your own light and return to the source of light. This is called practicing eternity.

Light, Use, Return

Superior leaders get things done with very little motion. They impart instruction not through many words, but through a few deeds. They keep informed about everything but interfere hardly at all. They are catalysts, and though things would not get done as well if they were not there, when they succeed they take no credit. And, because they take no credit, credit never leaves them.

Leadership, Done, Deeds

"Timeless Principles for Personal, Career, and Family Success" by Jim Clemmer, (p. 137), 1999.

Men are born soft and supple; dead, they are stiff and hard. Plants are born tender and pliant; dead, they are brittle and dry. Thus whoever is stiff and inflexible is a disciple of death. Whoever is soft and yielding is a disciple of life. The hard and stiff will be broken. The soft and supple will prevail.

Inspirational, Life, Death

Be truly whole, and all things will return to you.

Return, Awareness, All Things

The way is light and fluid for the man with no preferences.

Inspirational, Letting Go, Men

Great talents ripen late; the highest notes are hard to hear.

Teaching, Talent, Notes

Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

The reason why rivers and seas are able to be lords over a hundred mountain streams, is that they know how to keep below them. That is why they are able to reign over all the mountain streams.

Humility, Sea, Rivers

Geese are white, crows are black. No argument will change this.

Acceptance, White, Black

The wise man is one who knows what he does not know.

Wise, Men, Taoism

Knowing honor, but clinging to disgrace, you become the valley of the world.

Compassion, Knowing, Honor

Those who die without being forgotten get longevity.

Taoism, Forgotten, Longevity

Do you imagine the universe is agitated? Go into the desert at night and look out at the stars. This practice should answer the question..... The master settles her mind as the universe settles the stars in the sky. By connecting her mind with the subtle origin, she calms it. Once calmed, it naturally expands, and ultimately her mind becomes as vast and immeasurable as the night sky.

Stars, Night, Practice

Those who know when to halt are unharmed.

Taoism, Halt, Knows

The inner is the foundation of the outer. The still is master of the restless. The Sage travels all day yet never leaves his inner treasure.

Foundation, Sage, Treasure

In dwelling, be close to the land. In meditation, go deep in the heart.

Heart, Land, Dwelling

Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

If people are not afraid of dying, why threaten them with death?

People, Taoism, Dying

My own words are not the medicine, but a prescription; not the destination, but a map to help you reach it. When you get there, quiet your mind and close your mouth. Don't analyze the Tao. Strive instead to live it: silently, undividedly, with your whole harmonious being.

Medicine, Mind, Taoism

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

The Great Vessel takes long to complete.

Long, Taoism, Vessel

"Lao-tzu: Te-tao ching : a new translation based on the recently discovered Ma-wang-tui texts".

Take [preventive] action before things happen. Establish order before disorder has begun.

Order, Action, Happens

That so few understand me is why I am treasured.

Knowledge, Taoism, Understand Me

Worlds and particles, bodies and beings, time and space: All are transient expressions of the Tao.

Time, Expression, Space

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

The mature person perceives the fruitlessness of rigid, external methodologies.

Mature Person, Methodology, Perceive

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

The purest white seems stained.

White, Taoism, Seems

Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.

Beauty, Beautiful, Thought Provoking

Laozi, D. C. Lau (1989). “Tao Te Ching”, p.117, Chinese University Press

Express yourself completely, then keep quiet. Be like the forces of nature: when it blows, there is only wind; when it rains, there is only rain; when the clouds pass, the sun shines through. If you open yourself to the Tao, you are at one with the Tao and you can embody it completely. If you open yourself to insight, you are at one with insight and you can use it completely. If you open yourself to loss, you are at one with loss and you can accept it completely. Open yourself to the Tao, then trust your natural responses; and everything will fall into place.

Rain, Fall, Loss

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