Deal with difficult tasks while they are easy. Act on large issues while they are small. — Laozi Copy Share Image
My words are easy to understand and easy to perform, Yet no man under heaven knows them or practices them. — 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
In the pursuit of learning, every day something is acquired. In the pursuit of Tao, every day something is dropped. — Laozi Copy Share Image
Can you let go of words and ideas, attitudes and expectations? If so, then the Tao will loom into view. — Laozi Copy Share Image
I am good to people who are good. I am also good to people who are not good. Because Virtue is goodness. — Laozi Copy Share Image
Why is the tao so valuable? Because it is everywhere, and everyone can use it. This is why those who seek will… — Laozi Copy Share Image
As it acts in the world, the Tao is like the bending of a bow. The top is bent downward; the bottom… — Laozi Copy Share Image
The Master's power is like this. He lets all things come and go effortlessly, without desire. He never expects results; thus he… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Returning to the source is stillness, which is the way of nature. The way of nature is unchanging. Knowing constancy is insight. — Laozi Copy Share Image
Understand this if nothing else: spiritual freedom and oneness with the Tao are not randomly bestowed gifts, but the rewards of conscious… — 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
Giving birth and nourishing, Bearing yet not possessing, Working yet not taking credit, Leading yet not dominating, This is the Primal Virtue. — Laozi Copy Share Image
There is something obscure which is complete before heaven and earth arose; tranquil, quiet, standing alone without change, moving without peril. It… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Governing a large country is like frying a small fish. You spoil it with too much poking. Center your country in the… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Act without doing; work without effort. Think of the small as large and the few as many. Confront the difficult while it… — Laozi Copy Share Image
The Tao never does anything, yet through it all things are done. If powerful men and women could venter themselves in it,… — Laozi Copy Share Image
She who is centered in the Tao can go where she wishes, without danger. She perceives the universal harmony, even amid great… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Standing on "tip toe", one stands not firmly. Straining in stride, one cannot walk far. Flaunting of deeds, one is unfavorably noticed.… — Laozi Copy Share Image
The tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao The name that can be named is not the eternal Name.… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Do you think that you can clear your mind by sitting constantly in silent meditation? This makes your mind narrow, not clear.… — Laozi Copy Share Image
The Tao gives birth to One. One gives birth to Two. Two gives birth to Three. Three gives birth to all things.… — Laozi Copy Share Image
If a country is governed with tolerance, the people are comfortable and honest. If a country is governed with repression, the people… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Weapons are the tools of violence;all decent men detest them.Weapons are the tools of fear;a decent man will avoid themexcept in the… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Express yourself completely, then keep quiet. Be like the forces of nature: when it blows, there is only wind; when it rains,… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Tao is beyond words and beyond understanding. Words may be used to speak of it, but they cannot contain it. Tao existed… — Laozi Copy Share Image
There was something formless and perfect before the universe was born. It is serene. Empty. Solitary. Unchanging. Infinite. Eternally present. It is… — Laozi Copy Share Image
The generals have a saying: "Rather than make the first move it is better to wait and see. Rather than advance an… — 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 Tao is the center of the universe, the good man's treasure, the bad man's refuge. Honors can be bought with fine… — 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
