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Source Quotes by Laozi
- 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…
- 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…
- All things flourish, and each returns to its source.
- The Way is the source of all things, good people's treasure and bad people's refuge.
- Returning to the source is stillness. It is returning to one's fate. Returning to one's fate is eternal.
- If you go searching for the Great Creator, you will come back empty-handed. The source of the universe is ultimately unknowable, a great invisible river…
- Returning to the source is stillness, which is the way of nature. The way of nature is unchanging. Knowing constancy is insight.
- The heavy is the root of the light. The unmoved is the source of all movement. Thus the Master travels all day without leaving home.…
- Empty your mind of all thoughts. Let your heart be at peace. Watch the turmoil of beings, but contemplate their return. Each separate being in…
- Ever desireless, one can see the mystery. Ever desiring, one can see the manifestations. These two spring from the same source but differ in name;…
- Returning to the source is serenity.
- The tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao The name that can be named is not the eternal Name. The unnamable is…
- The named was born from the unnamed . . . all being flows from non-being . . . the describable world emanates from an indescribable…
- Yet mystery and imagination arise from the same source. This source is called darkness ... Darkness within darkness, the gateway to all understanding.
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- We don't have sources who are dissidents on other sources. Should they come forward, that would be a tricky situation for us.… — Julian Assange
- The possessors of wealth can scarcely be indifferent to processes which, nearly or remotely have been the fertile source of their possessions. — Charles Babbage