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Laozi Quotes about Taoism - Page 6

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My own words are not the medicine, but a prescription; not the destination, but a map to help you reach it. When you get there, quiet your mind and close your mouth. Don't analyze the Tao. Strive instead to live it:

My own words are not the medicine, but a prescription; not the destination, but a map to help you reach it. When you get there, quiet your mind and close your mouth. Don't analyze the Tao. Strive instead to live it: silently, undividedly, with your whole harmonious being.

Medicine, Mind, Taoism

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

The Great Vessel takes long to complete.

Long, Taoism, Vessel

"Lao-tzu: Te-tao ching : a new translation based on the recently discovered Ma-wang-tui texts".

That so few understand me is why I am treasured.

Knowledge, Taoism, Understand Me

The purest white seems stained.

White, Taoism, Seems

The sage regards things as difficult, and thereby avoids difficulty.

Taoism, Sage, Difficult

Abandon wisdom, discard knowledge, and people will benefit a hundredfold.

Knowledge, People, Taoism

The way of heaven is to help and not harm.

Heaven, Taoism, Way

The most eloquent seems to stutter.

Taoism, Eloquent, Seems

Peace and quiet govern the world.

Taoism, World, Quiet

The highest virtue is not virtuous. Therefore it has virtue. The lowest virtue holds on to virtue. Therefore it has no virtue.

Taoism, Virtue, Virtuous

The Tao's principle is spontaneity.

Taoism, Principles, Tao

My words have an origin. My deeds have a sovereign. Truly, because people do not understand this, they do not understand me.

Knowledge, People, Taoism

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

Harmony is called the eternal. Knowing the eternal is called clarity.

Knowing, Taoism, Clarity

Those who show off do not shine.

Shining, Taoism, Shows

Returning to the source is stillness. It is returning to one's fate. Returning to one's fate is eternal.

Fate, Taoism, Source

The best way to carve is not to split.

Taoism, Splits, Way

...the more you talk of it, the less you understand.

Tao Te Ching, Taoism, Saints And Sinners

Laozi (2016). “The Tao Te Ching: Annotated Edition”, p.97, Dudeism LLC

The sage acts without taking credit. He accomplishes without dwelling on it. He does not want to display his worth.

Dwelling, Taoism, Doe

All things carry yin and embrace yang. They reach harmony by blending with the vital breath.

Taoism, Yang, Harmony

Stillness overcomes heat.

Taoism, Overcoming, Heat

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

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

Honesty, Confusion, Taoism

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

Loss, Taoism, Tao Ching

Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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

Taoism, Desire, World

The Way is ever nameless.

Taoism, Way, Nameless

Laozi, Moss Roberts (2004). “Dao de Jing: The Book of the Way”, p.207, Univ of California Press

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