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Ideas Quotes by Laozi
- 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…
- Can you dissolve your ego? Can you abandon the idea of self and other? Can you relinquish the notions of male and female, short and…
- Can you let go of words and ideas, attitudes and expectations? If so, then the Tao will loom into view.
- . . . the mind is desperate to fix the river {of events} in place: Possessed by ideas of the past, preoccupied with images of…
- The Master keeps her mind always at one with the Tao; that is what gives her her radiance. The Tao is ungraspable. How can her…
- There is a big misunderstanding about the idea of naturalness. Most people who come to us believing in some freedom or naturalness, but their understanding…
- The mark of a moderate man is freedom from his own ideas. Tolerant like the sky, all-pervading like sunlight, firm like a mountain, supple like…
- The sense organs, which are limited in scope and ability, randomly gather information. This partial information is arranged into judgments, which are based on previous…
- Abandon fancy theologies and imaginary ideas and do some ordinary daily work... {Engage in this work with} unswerving kindness and unending patience.
- It is because every one tinder Heaven recognizes beauty as beauty that the idea of ugliness exists.
- The ego is entranced by ... names and ideas... However names and concepts only block your perception of this Great Oneness. Therefore it is wise…
- The sage seeks freedom from desire. He does not collect precious things. He learns not to hold on to ideas. He brings men back to…
More Ideas Quotes
- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- There is no great genius without a mixture of madness. — Aristotle
- I love the idea of anthropomorphizing machines. I love the idea of taking technology and giving it a personality. — J. J. Abrams
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- Never in my wildest dreams did I entertain the idea that I would become a fashion designer. — Giorgio Armani
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- In the United States Christmas has become the rape of an idea. — Richard Bach
- We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus;… — Karen Armstrong
- It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what… — Lance Armstrong
- There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the… — Antonin Artaud
- A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one. — Mary Kay Ash
- But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me… — Chinua Achebe