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
People take death lightly. They expect too much of life. That is why people take death lightly. — Laozi Copy Share Image
What honor can there be without humility? What heights can be reached without being low? The pieces of a chariot are useless… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Truly, only acting without thought of one's life is superior to valuing one's life. — 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
Every being in the universe is an expression of the Tao. It springs into existence, unconscious, perfect, free, takes on a physical… — Laozi Copy Share Image
The surest test if a person be sane, is if she accepts life whole, as it is. — Laozi Copy Share Image
Man at his birth is supple and tender, but in death, he is rigid and hard. Thus, suppleness and tenderness accompany life,… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Those who know do not speak; Those who speak do not know. Stop up the openings, Close down the doors, Rub off… — 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
{The cleansing of spiritual contamination} is accomplished by offering one's talent, resources, and life to the world. — 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
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
The hard and stiff are death's companions. The soft and weak are life's companions. — Laozi Copy Share Image
When you stand with your two feet on the ground, you will always keep your balance. — Laozi Copy Share Image
When you realize where you come from, you naturally become tolerant, amused, kindhearted as a grandmother, and dignified as a king. Immersed… — 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
When life begins we are tender and weak When life ends we are stiff and rigid All things, including the grass and… — 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
Instead of being afraid of death, we should try to awake to life; and the only death we should escape from is… — Laozi Copy Share Image
The transformation toward eternal life is gradual. The heavy gross energy of body, mind, and spirit must first be purified and uplifted.… — Laozi Copy Share Image
When you have accomplished your goal simply walk away. This is the path way to Heaven. — Laozi Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
