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Laozi Quotes - Page 8

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Trying to understand is like straining through muddy water. Be still and allow the mud to settle.

Trying to understand is like straining through muddy water. Be still and allow the mud to settle.

Patience, Knowledge, Water

Empty your mind of all thoughts. Let your heart be at peace. Watch the turmoil of beings, but contemplate their return. Each separate being in the universe returns to the common source. Returning to the source is serenity. If you don't realize the source, you stumble in confusion and sorrow. When you realize where you come from, you naturally become tolerant, disinterested, amused, kindhearted as a grandmother, dignified as a king. Immersed in the wonder of the Tao, you can deal with whatever life brings you, and when death comes, you are ready.

Kings, Heart, Grandmother

The value comes from what is there, but the use comes from what is not there.

Taoism, Use, Values

Close your mouth, block off your senses, blunt your sharpness, untie your knots, soften your glare, settle your dust. This is the primal identity.

Block, Dust, Tao Te Ching

Failure is an opportunity. If you blame someone else, there is no end to the blame. Therefore the Master fulfills her own obligations and corrects her own mistakes. She does what she needs to do and demands nothing of others.

Mistake, Opportunity, Doe

Those who seek knowledge, collect something every day. Those who seek the Way, let go of something every day.

Letting Go, Knowledge, Taoism

The usefulness of the pot lies in its emptiness.

Lying, Emptiness, Pot

Do not imagine that an integral being has the ambition of enlightening the unaware or raising worldly people to the divine realm. To her, there is no self and other, and hence no one to be raised; no heaven and hell, and hence no destination.

Ambition, Self, People

Free from desire, you realize the mystery, caught in the desire, you see only the manifestations.

Tao Te Ching, Desire, Mystery

Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.

Difficult And Easy, Effectiveness, Risk

. . . integral wisdom involves a direct participation in every moment: the observer and the observed are dissolved in the light of pure awareness, and no mental concepts or attitudes are present to dim that light.

Wisdom, Attitude, Light

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

It is wealth to be content.

Wealth

The master understands that the universe is forever out of control

Forever, Masters, Universe

Stop trying to control. Let go of fixed plans and concepts, and the world will govern itself.

Letting Go, Taoism, Trying

He who stands on tiptoe doesn't stand firm. He who rushes ahead doesn't go far. He who tries to shine dims his own light. He who defines himself can't know who he really is. He who has power over others can't empower himself. He who clings to his work will create nothing that endures.

Inspirational, Light, Empowering

The best way to manage anything is by making use of its own nature.

Use, Way, Best Way

Laozi, Archie J. Bahm (1996). “Tao Teh King”, p.47, Jain Publishing Company

The more clever and cunning people are, the stranger the events will be.

Clever, Knowledge, People

There are many paths to enlightenment. Be sure to take the one with a heart.

Inspiring, Heart, Enlightenment

If you wish to be out front, then act as if you were behind.

Inspirational, Inspiring, Success

Allow your softer, more intuitive, and less dominating feminine qualities to rise to the fore, so that you're surrendering rather than dominating, receiving rather than broadcasting, loving rather than fighting.

Fighting, Taoism, Quality

The mark of a moderate man is freedom from his own ideas. Tolerant like the sky, all-pervading like sunlight, firm like a mountain, supple like a tree in the wind, he has no destination in view and makes use of anything life happens to bring his way.

Inspirational, Men, Views

The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, Having bestowed all he has on others, he has yet more; having given all he has to others, he is richer still.

Helping Others, Generosity, Doe

The greatest revelation is stillness.

Revelations, Stillness

I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.

Leadership, Humility, Men

The eye with which you see God is the same eye with which God sees you; one in seeing; one in knowing; one in loving.

Eye, Knowing, Seeing

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