Skip to content

Contemplating Quote by Laozi

“Empty your mind of all thoughts. Let your heart be at peace. Watch the turmoil of beings, but contemplate their return.” quote by Laozi — Download Open image

“Empty your mind of all thoughts. Let your heart be at peace. Watch the turmoil of beings, but contemplate their return.”

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (4 ratings)

Contemplating Empty Heart Mind Peace Psychology Return Turmoil Watches

More by Laozi

When you have accomplished your goal simply walk away. This is the path way to Heaven.

Image

In lightness the root is lost. In haste the ruler is lost.

Image

If the sage wants to stand above people, he must speak to them from below. If he wants to lead people, he must follow…

Image

Goodie-goodies are the thieves of virtue.

Image

He that humbles himself shall be preserved entire. He that bends shall be made straight. He that is empty shall be filled. He that…

Image

The Way of the Sage is to act but not to compete.

Image

Do nondoing, strive for nonstriving, savor the flavorless, regard the small as important, make much of little, repay enmity with virtue; plan for difficulty…

Image

Without looking through the window, you can see Heaven's Way.

Image

Can you dissolve your ego? Can you abandon the idea of self and other? Can you relinquish the notions of male and female, short…

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 words, respect…

Image

What's the difference between beautiful and ugly?

Image

In stillness the muddied water returns to clarity.

Image

Explore all 1,140 Laozi quotes

More Contemplating quotes

Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for…

Thomas Jefferson

Image

What's given, in fact, always depends on the person or thing it's given to. A minor incident in the street brings the cook to…

Fernando Pessoa

Image

The good author is he who contemplates without marked joy or excessive sorrow the adventures of his soul amongst criticisms.

Image

I have actually seen people contemplate their navels

Image

It is very pleasant to scratch an itching ring-worm, but the sensation one gets afterwards is very painful and intolerable. In the same way…

Image

He that contemplates hath a day without night.

Image

If we are to define science, ... it does not consist so much in knowing, nor even in "organized knowledge," as it does in…

Charles Sanders Peirce

Image

As we contemplate with reverence and awe how our Savior embraces us, comforts us, and heals us, let us commit to become His hands,…

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Image

Contemplating the bowl, it is possible to see the interdependent elements which give rise to the bowl.

Image

The two hardest things to contemplate in life ... are failure and age; those are one and the same.

Image

It always grieves me to contemplate the initiation of children into the ways of life when they are scarcely more than infants. It checks…

Charles Dickens

Image

When contemplating college liberals, you really regret once again that John Walker is not getting the death penalty.We need to execute people like John…

Image

Browse all 737 Contemplating quotes