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Laozi Quotes - Page 25

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Always be on the lookout for ways to turn a problem into an opportunity for success. Always be on the lookout for ways to nurture your dream.

Always be on the lookout for ways to turn a problem into an opportunity for success. Always be on the lookout for ways to nurture your dream.

Dream, Opportunity, Worry

Stillness overcomes heat.

Taoism, Overcoming, Heat

Laozi, Philip J. Ivanhoe (2003). “The Daodejing of Laozi”, p.48, Hackett Publishing

When a country is in harmony with the Tao, the factories make trucks and tractors. When a country goes counter to the Tao, warheads are stockpiled outside the cities. There is no greater illusion than fear, no greater wrong than preparing to defend yourself, no greater misfortune than having an enemy. Whoever can see through all fear will always be safe.

Country, Fear, Cities

What honor can there be without humility? What heights can be reached without being low? The pieces of a chariot are useless unless the work in accordance with the whole A man's life brings nothing unless he lives in accordance with the whole universe Playing one's part in accordance with the universe is true humility So whether you're a gem in the royal court or a stone on the common path If you accept your part with humility the glory of the universe will be yours

Life, Humility, Men

He who loves does not dispute: He who disputes does not love.

Love, Doe, Disputes

Knowing others is to be clever. Knowing yourself is to be enlightened. Overcoming others requires force. Overcoming yourself requires strength.

Inspirational, Clever, Integrity

Therefore the Sage, wishing to be above the people, must by his words put himself below them; wishing to be before the people, he must put himself behind them. In this way, though he has his place above them, the people do not feel his weight; though he has his place before them, they do not feel it as an injury. Therefore all mankind delight to exalt him, and weary of him not.

Humility, People, Wish

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

Kindness, Work, Ideas

Can you dissolve your ego? Can you abandon the idea of self and other? Can you relinquish the notions of male and female, short and long, life and death? Can you let go of all these dualities and embrace the Tao without skepticism or panic? If so, you can reach the heart of the Integral Oneness.

Letting Go, Heart, Self

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

Mask your brightness. Be at one with the dust of the earth. This is primal union.

Dust, Earth, Unions

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

The great Way is easy, yet people prefer the side paths. Be aware when things are out of balance. Stay centered within the Tao. When rich speculators prosper While farmers lose their land; when government officials spend money on weapons instead of cures; when the upper class is extravagant and irresponsible while the poor have nowhere to turn- all this is robbery and chaos. It is not in keeping with the Tao.

Government, Land, Class

Rituals are the end of fidelity and honesty, and the beginning of confusion.

Honesty, Confusion, Taoism

Act without doing; work without effort. Think of the small as large and the few as many. Confront the difficult while it is still easy; accomplish the great task by a series of small acts. The Master never reaches for the great; thus she achieves greatness. When she runs into a difficulty, she stops and gives herself to it. She doesn't cling to her own comfort; thus problems are no problem for her.

Running, Greatness, Thinking

When you are one with loss, the loss is experienced willingly.

Loss, Taoism, Tao Ching

Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

Instead of being afraid of death, we should try to awake to life; and the only death we should escape from is to forget the presence of God into us.

Trying, Forget, Should

In the Way of Heaven, there is no partiality of love; it is always on the side of the good man.

Love, Heart, Men

Laozi (2015). “Tao Te Ching”, p.79, Booklassic

Who is unhappy with little, won't be with much; who doesn't appreciate the small won't be able to take care of the large; who doesn't have enough with enough is at the margin or virtue, for the physical body lives from one day to another and if it gets what it really needs, there will be time for meditation, as long as if we try to give it everything it desires, endless will be the task.

Long, Appreciate, Giving

Though tightly the net of words forms, how surely truth slips out.

Thinking, Form, Slips

The truly wise are content to be last. They are, therefore, first. They are indifferent to themselves. They are, therefore self-confident.

Confidence, Wise, Self

Other people are joyous, like on the feast of the ox, like on the way up to the terrace in the spring. I alone am inert, giving no sign, like a newborn baby who has not learned to smile.

Baby, Spring, Compassion

The Tao gives birth to One. One gives birth to Two. Two gives birth to Three. Three gives birth to all things. All things have their backs to the female and stand facing the male. When male and female combine, all things achieve harmony. Ordinary men hate solitude. But the Master makes use of it, embracing his aloneness, realizing he is one with the whole universe.

Hate, Men, Two

If you want to shrink something, you must first allow it to expand. If you want to get rid of something, you must first allow it to flourish. If you want to take something, you must first allow it to be given. This is called the subtler perception of the way things are. The soft overcomes the hard. The slow overcomes the fast. Let your workings remain a mystery. Just show people the results.

People, Perception, Overcoming

People who have to fight for their living and are not afraid to die for it are higher persons than those who, stationed high, are too fat to dare to die.

Fighting, Economic Inequality, People

Without desire there is stillness, and the world settles by itself.

Taoism, Desire, World

Watch your thoughts, they become words.

Motivational, Determination, Smart

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