When the highest type of people hear Tao (Truth), they diligently practice it. When the average type of people hear Tao, they half believe in it. When the lowest type of people hear Tao, they laugh at it. If they did not laugh, it would not be Tao.
LAOZIExcellent warriors are not violent.
More Laozi Quotes
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The wise man knows he doesn’t know.
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From caring comes courage.
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One cannot reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
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The great image lacks shape.
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Not all spiritual paths lead to the harmonious Oneness. Indeed, most are detours and distractions, nothing more.
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To know you have enough is to be rich.
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The ego is entranced by … names and ideas… However names and concepts only block your perception of this Great Oneness. Therefore it is wise to ignore them. Those who live inside their egos are continually bewildered.
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The transformation toward eternal life is gradual. The heavy gross energy of body, mind, and spirit must first be purified and uplifted. When the energy ascends… then self mastery can be sought.
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…the more you talk of it, the less you understand.
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The light of the Way seems dim.
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Make the small big and the few many.
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If you want to be given everything, give everything up.
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A foolish man is always doing, Yet much remains to be done.
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Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.
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That the soft overcomes the hard, and the yielding overcomes the resistant, is a fact known by all, but practiced by few.
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Watch your thoughts, they become words.
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Loss is not as bad as wanting more.
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When people see some things as good, other things become bad.
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He that humbles himself shall be preserved entire. He that bends shall be made straight. He that is empty shall be filled. He that is worn out shall be renewed. He who has little shall succeed. He who has much shall go astray.
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Man’s enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.
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Good words shall gain you honor in the marketplace, but good deeds shall gain you friends among men.
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See others as yourself. See families as your family. See towns as your town. See countries as your country. See worlds as your world.
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Follow diligently the Way in your own heart, but make no display of it to the world.
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Softness triumphs over hardness, feebleness over strength. What is more malleable is always superior over that which is immoveable. This is the principle of controlling things by going along with them, of mastery through adaptation.
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The great Way is all-pervading. It reaches to the left and to the right. All things depend on it with their existence. Still it demands no obedience.
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There was something that finished chaos, born before Heaven and Earth.
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