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Nature Quotes by Laozi

53 Nature quotes by Laozi

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A motionless stone that never changes shows how nature stays the same while people move. Laozi teaches that living in harmony means letting go of desire and keeping the mind still. He also says that nature is not like a human and that basic needs are natural.

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Nature doesn't make long speeches.

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The forceful and violent will not die from natural causes.

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Human being's essential nature is perfect and faultless.

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To be of few words is natural.

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Nature is not anthropomorphic.

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Peace is our natural state of being.

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Appetite for food and sex is nature.

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A terrace nine stories high begins with a pile of earth.

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Live simply and virtuously, true to your nature, drawing no line between what is spiritual and what is not.

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Be empty. Be still. Just watch everything come and go. This is the way of Nature.

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Nature's way is simple and easy, but men prefer the intricate and artificial.

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Remember: if you can cease all restless activity, your integral nature will appear.

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Open yourself to the truth, then trust in your natural responses, and everything will fall into place.

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A tree that cannot bend will crack in the wind. Thus by nature's own decree, the soft and gentle are triumphant.

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Because clarity and enlightenment are within your own nature, they are regained without moving an inch.

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The one who does not stray away from her/his nature will live long.

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No thought, no action, no movement, total stillness: only thus can one manifest the true nature and law of things from within…

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The tree which needs two arms to span its girth sprang from the tiniest shoot. Yon tower, nine stories high, rose from…

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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.

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One who lives in accordance with nature does not go against the way of things but moves in harmony with the present…

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The natural laws of the universe are inviolable... what you say and do determines what happens in your life... You are the…

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A tree that can fill the span of a man's arms grows from a downy tip; A terrace nine stories high rises…

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Returning to the source is stillness, which is the way of nature. The way of nature is unchanging. Knowing constancy is insight.

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Every human being's essential nature is perfect and faultless, but after years of immersion in the world we easily forget our roots…

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There is a thing inherent and natural which existed before heaven and earth. Motionless and fathomless, It stands alone and never changes;…

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Man, when living, is soft and tender; when dead, he is hard and tough. All animals and plants when living are tender…

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Is not the action of nature like the stretching of a bow? The high, it pulls down; the low, it lifts up;…

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Eliminate mental muddiness and obscurity; keep your mind crystal clear. Allow your pure original insight to emerge. Quiet your emotions and abide…

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heaven is eternal, earth everlasting. they endure this way because they do not live for themselves. in the same way, the wise…

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Empty yourself of everything. Let the mind become still. The ten thousand things rise and fall while the Self watches their return.…

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“The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao. The name that can be named is not the eternal name.…

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Without going out-of-doors, one can know all he needs to know. Without even looking out of his window, one can grasp the…

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In harmony with the Tao, the sky is clear and spacious, the earth is solid and full, all creature flourish together, content…

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Express yourself completely, then keep quiet. Be like the forces of nature: when it blows, there is only wind; when it rains,…

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Tao is beyond words and beyond understanding. Words may be used to speak of it, but they cannot contain it. Tao existed…

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Nature does not have to insist.

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He who knows how to be aggressive, and yet remains patient, becomes a receptacle for all of Nature's lessons.

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Use the light that is in you to recover your natural clearness of sight

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Mask your brightness. Be at one with the dust of the earth. This is primal union.

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Those who would take over the earth and shape it to their will, never, I notice succeed.

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