Whatever is flexible and living will tend to grow; whatever is rigid and blocked will wither and die. — Laozi Copy Share Image
Deal with difficult tasks while they are easy. Act on large issues while they are small. — Laozi Copy Share Image
Approach your own inner life with a loving quality that accepts who you are without trying to change who you are. — Laozi Copy Share Image
We go from birth to death. Three out of ten follow life. Three out of ten follow death. People who rush from… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Be careful what you water your dreams with. Water them with worry and fear and you will produce weeds that choke the… — Laozi Copy Share Image
The new life created by the final integration is self-aware yet without ego, capable of inhabiting a body yet not attached to… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Those who make their living by collecting taxes cause the people to starve; when the people starve, the tax collectors, having no… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in turning that diary… — Laozi Copy Share Image
The cords of passion and desire weave a binding net around you. Worldly confrontation makes you stiff and inflexible. The trap of… — Laozi Copy Share Image
A brave and passionate man will kill or be killed. A brave and calm man will always preserve life. Of these two… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Heaven and Earth last for ever. Why do Heaven and Earth last for ever? They are unborn, so ever living. The sage… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Can you dissolve your ego? Can you abandon the idea of self and other? Can you relinquish the notions of male and… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Most of the world's religions serve only to strengthen attachments to false concepts such as self and other, life and death, heaven… — Laozi Copy Share Image
People aren't against you; they are for themselves. The most dangerous risk of all - the risk of spending your life not… — Laozi Copy Share Image
In dwelling, be close to the land. In meditation, go deep in the heart. In dealing with others, be gentle and kind.… — Laozi Copy Share Image
The Master gives himself up to whatever the moment brings. He knows that he is going to die, and her has nothing… — Laozi Copy Share Image
If you attach yourself to gross energies - loving this person, hating that clan, rejecting one experience or habitually indulging in another… — Laozi Copy Share Image
The living are soft and yielding; the dead are rigid and stiff. Living plants are flexible and tender; the dead are brittle… — Laozi Copy Share Image
{The cleansing of spiritual contamination} is accomplished by offering one's talent, resources, and life to the world. — Laozi Copy Share Image
Through return to simple living comes control of desires. In control of desires stillness is attained. In stillness the world is restored. — Laozi Copy Share Image
Why do the people think so little of death? Because the rulers demand too much of life. Therefore the people take death… — Laozi Copy Share Image
. . . the integral being is attached to nothing and can relate to everyone with an unstructured attitude. Because of this,… — Laozi Copy Share Image
“When one knows that he is his mother's child, and proceeds to guard (the qualities of) the mother that belong to him,… — Laozi Copy Share Image
“An ocean of ink in a single drop, Trembling at the tip of my brush. Poised above stark white paper, A universe… — Laozi Copy Share Image
People who have to fight for their living and are not afraid to die for it are higher persons than those who,… — Laozi Copy Share Image
When you have accomplished your goal simply walk away. This is the path way to Heaven. — Laozi Copy Share
If the sage wants to stand above people, he must speak to them from below. If he wants to lead people, he must follow… — Laozi Copy Share
He that humbles himself shall be preserved entire. He that bends shall be made straight. He that is empty shall be filled. He that… — Laozi Copy Share
Do nondoing, strive for nonstriving, savor the flavorless, regard the small as important, make much of little, repay enmity with virtue; plan for difficulty… — Laozi Copy Share
Can you dissolve your ego? Can you abandon the idea of self and other? Can you relinquish the notions of male and female, short… — Laozi Copy Share
The Tao is the center of the universe, the good man's treasure, the bad man's refuge. Honors can be bought with fine words, respect… — Laozi Copy Share
He (the sage) is good to those who are good. He is also good to those who are not good. That is the virtue… — Laozi Copy Share
There is a thing inherent and natural which existed before heaven and earth. Motionless and fathomless, It stands alone and never changes; It pervades… — Laozi Copy Share
What is a good man but a bad man's teacher? What is a bad man but a good man's job? If you do not… — Laozi Copy Share
