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From Quotes by Laozi
- Therefore the Sage embraces Unity, and is a model for all under Heaven. He is free from self-display, therefore he shines forth; from self-assertion, therefore…
- Go to the people. Learn from them. Live with them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. The best of leaders when…
- The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
- From wonder into wonder existence opens.
- A tree trunk the size of a man grows from a blade as thin as a hair. A tower nine stories high is built from…
- No thought, no action, no movement, total stillness: only thus can one manifest the true nature and law of things from within and unconsciously, and…
- Most of the world's religions serve only to strengthen attachments to false concepts such as self and other, life and death, heaven and earth, and…
- Be careful what you water your dreams with. Water them with worry and fear and you will produce weeds that choke the life from your…
- The tree which needs two arms to span its girth sprang from the tiniest shoot. Yon tower, nine stories high, rose from a little mound…
- Freedom from desire leads to inner peace.
- Tao is beyond words and beyond understanding. Words may be used to speak of it, but they cannot contain it. Tao existed before words and…
- If I have even just a little sense, I will walk on the main road and my only fear will be of straying from it.…
- When you realize where you come from, you naturally become tolerant, amused, kindhearted as a grandmother, and dignified as a king. Immersed in wonder, you…
- All things issue from it; all things return to it. To find the origin, trace back the manifestations. When you recognize the children and find…
- Free from desire, you realize the mystery, caught in the desire, you see only the manifestations.
- The usefulness of a pot comes from its emptiness.
- Your own positive future begins in this moment. All you have is right now. Every goal is possible from here.
- Sometimes gain comes from losing, and sometimes loss comes from gaining.
- The value comes from what is there, but the use comes from what is not there.
- The forceful and violent will not die from natural causes.
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