Top 25 Quotes by Laozi of 1310 - Page 38

We join spokes together in a wheel, but it is the center hole that makes the wagon move. We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want. We hammer wood for a house, but it is the inner space that makes it livable. We work with being, but non-being is what we use.

Laozi

Moving, Space, House

The Way begets one; one begets two; two begets three; three begets the myriad creatures.

Laozi

Two, Numbers, Three

Laozi, D. C. Lau (1989). “Tao Te Ching”, p.63, Chinese University Press

Justice has long arm.

Laozi

Long, Justice, Arms

In stillness the muddied water returns to clarity.

Laozi

Water, Return, Clarity

Between yea and nay, how much difference is there?

Laozi

Differences

Laozi, D. C. Lau (1989). “Tao Te Ching”, p.29, Chinese University Press

In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple.

Laozi

Simple, Thinking, Dwelling

When the government is quite unobtrusive, people are indeed pure. When the government is quite prying, people are indeed conniving.

Laozi

Government, People, Taoism

heaven is eternal, earth everlasting. they endure this way because they do not live for themselves. in the same way, the wise person puts himself last, and thereby finds himself first, holds himself outside, and thereby remains at the center, abandons himself, and is thereby fulfilled.

Laozi

Wise, Heaven, Earth

The Way is hidden and nameless. Still only the Way nourishes and completes.

Laozi

Taoism, Way, Nameless

When good thing are accomplished, it does not claim (or name) them. This is Te, which is close in meaning to power or virtue. It is something within a person, and it is enhanced by following the Tao, or 'that from which nothing can deviate'.

Laozi

Names, Taoism, Doe

Without stepping out the door, you can know the world.

Laozi

Doors, Taoism, World

To be constantly without desire is the way to have a vision of the mystery of heaven and earth. For constantly to have desire is the means by which their limitations are seen.

Laozi

Mean, Heaven, Vision