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Laozi Quotes - Page 9

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ALL things in Nature work silently. They come into being and possess nothing. They fulfil their functions and make no claim.

ALL things in Nature work silently. They come into being and possess nothing. They fulfil their functions and make no claim.

Gratitude, Humility, Courtesy

Nurture the spontaneous peaceful life.

Peaceful, Taoism, Spontaneous

A good manager is best when people barely know that he exists. Not so good when people obey and acclaim him. Worse when they despise him.

Leadership, People, Good Man

When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

Relationship, Respect, Being Yourself

Knowledge studies others, wisdom is self known.

Self, Study, Known

Perfect kindness acts without thinking of kindness.

Kindness, Thinking, Compassion

Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.

Inspirational, Selfish, Simple

Tao-te Ching ch. 19 (translation byWing-Tsit Chan)

A good athlete can enter a state of body-awareness in which the right stroke or the right movement happens by itself, effortlessly, without any interference of the conscious will. This is a paradigm for non-action: the purest and most effective form of action. The game plays the game; the poem writes the poem; we can't tell the dancer from the dance. It happens when we trust the intelligence of the universe in the same way that an athlete or a dancer trusts the superior intelligence of the body.

Writing, Athlete, Games

Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.

Strong, Power, Water

Empty yourself of everything. Let the mind become still. The ten thousand things rise and fall while the Self watches their return. They grow and flourish and then return to the source. Returning to the source is stillness, which is the way of nature.

Nature, Fall, Animal

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

Peace is our natural state of being.

Natural, States

Laozi (2005). “Tao te ching: a new translation & commentary”

Do you think that you can clear your mind by sitting constantly in silent meditation? This makes your mind narrow, not clear. Integral awareness is fluid and adaptable, present in all places and at all times. That is true meditation. ... The Tao is clear and simple, and it doesn't avoid the world.

Simple, Thinking, Meditation

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

A good wanderer leaves no trace.

Taoism, Wanderers

The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest.

Flower, Careers, Two

If you scramble about in search of inner peace, you will lose your inner peace.

Inner Peace, Taoism, Ifs

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

The wise are not learned, the learned are not wise.

Life, Wise, Learning

Laozi, Lao-Tzu, Stephen Addiss, Stanley Lombardo (2007). “Tao Te Ching”, p.81, Shambhala Publications

The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world. Through this I know the advantage of taking no action.

Acting, Overcoming, World

Not praising the deserving prevents envy.

Envy, Taoism, Praise

Silence is a source of great strenght.

Silence, Strenght, Source

If you attach yourself to gross energies - loving this person, hating that clan, rejecting one experience or habitually indulging in another - then you will lead a series of heavy, attached lives. This can go on for a very long and tedious time.

Life, Hate, Long

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

Going forward seems like retreat.

Retreat, Seems, Tao Te Ching Leadership

Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

What has not yet emerged is easy to prevent.

Taoism, Easy

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.

Inspirational, Life, Music

Those who flow as life flows know they need no other force.

Inspirational, Taoism, Needs

A violent wind does not outlast the morning; a squall of rain does not outlast the day. Such is the course of Nature. And if Nature herself cannot sustain her efforts long, how much less can man!

Morning, Rain, Persistence

"Tao Te Ching". Chapter 3 as translated by Lionel Giles,

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