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Laozi Quotes about Heaven

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When you have accomplished your goal simply walk away. This is the path way to Heaven.

When you have accomplished your goal simply walk away. This is the path way to Heaven.

Goal, Heaven, Taoism

What makes a kingdom great is its being like a down-flowing river,--the central point towards which all the smaller streams under Heaven converge; or like the female throughout the world, who by quiescence always overcomes the male. And quiescence is a form of humility.

Humility, Rivers, Heaven

The nameless is the beginning of Heaven and Earth. The named is the mother of all things.

Mother, Heaven, Tao Te Ching

Laozi, Philip J. Ivanhoe (2003). “The Daodejing of Laozi”, p.104, Hackett Publishing

The way of heaven is to help and not harm.

Heaven, Taoism, Way

Heaven's Way does not contend, yet it certainly triumphs. It does not speak, yet it certainly answers. It does not summon, yet things come by themselves. It seems to be at rest, yet it certainly has a plan.

Heaven, Taoism, Triumph

The things that have acquired unity are these: Heaven by unity has become clear; Earth by unity has become steady; The Spirit by unity has become spiritual; The Valley by unity has become full; All things by unity have come into existence.

Spiritual, Hurt, Heaven

Laozi (1959). “Tao Tê Ching”

No thought, no action, no movement, total stillness: only thus can one manifest the true nature and law of things from within and unconsciously, and at last become one with heaven and earth.

Law, Meditation, Heaven

The Way to Heaven has no favorites. It is always with the good man.

Spiritual, Men, Heaven

Man is ruled by Earth. Earth is ruled by Heaven. Heaven is ruled by the Way. The Way is ruled by itself.

Men, Heaven, Taoism

What Heaven detests, who knows why? Even the sage considers it difficult.

Heaven, Taoism, Sage

If Heaven were not clear it might rend. If Earth were not firm it might crumble.

Heaven, Taoism, Earth

Heaven and Earth are not kind. They regard all things as offerings.

Offering, Heaven, Taoism

Is not the space between Heaven and Earth like a bellows? It is empty, but lacks nothing. The more it moves, the more comes out of it.

Moving, Space, Heaven

He who defends with love will be secure; Heaven will save him, and protect him with love.

Heaven, Protect, Secure

Laozi (1959). “Tao Tê Ching: A New Translation”

Heaven's Way is like stretching a bow. The high is lowered and the low is raised. Excess is reduced and deficiency is replenished. Heaven's Way reduces excess and replenishes deficiency. People's Way is not so. They reduce the deficient and supply the excessive.

People, Heaven, Taoism

Without going outside, you may know the whole world, without looking through the window, you may see the ways of heaven. The farther you go, the less you know. Thus the sage knows without traveling; he sees without looking; he works without doing.

Yoga, Heaven, May

Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.

Helping Others, Giving, Heaven

There was something that finished chaos, born before Heaven and Earth.

Heaven, Taoism, Earth

If Heaven and Earth are unable to persist, how could man?

Men, Heaven, 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.

Wise, Heaven, Earth

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.

Mean, Heaven, Vision

Heaven and earth are ruthless, and treat the various creatures as straw dogs; the sage is ruthless, and treats others as straw dogs.

Dog, Heaven, Sage

Heaven's net is very vast. It is sparsely meshed, yet nothing slips through.

Heaven, Taoism, Slips

Purity and stillness give the correct law to all under heaven.

Law, Giving, Heaven

Laozi (2015). “Tao Te Ching”, p.45, Booklassic

To retreat after a work well done is Heaven's Way.

Heaven, Taoism, Work Well Done

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