A multitude of words is tiresome, unlike remaining centered.
LAOZIInstead of being afraid of death, we should try to awake to life; and the only death we should escape from is to forget the presence of God into us.
More Laozi Quotes
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I am wearied, as if I lacked a home to go to.
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Those who act will fail. Those who seize will lose.
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Weapons are instruments of fear; they are not a wise man’s tools. He uses them only when he has no choice.
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A foolish man is always doing, Yet much remains to be done.
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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 dream.
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Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is enlightenment.
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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 world’s beginning is its mother. To have found the mother is also to know the children. Although you know the children, cling to the mother. Until your last day you will not be harmed.
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Heavy is the root of light.
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Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.
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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.
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Make the small big and the few many.
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. . . the mind is desperate to fix the river {of events} in place: Possessed by ideas of the past, preoccupied with images of the future, it overlooks the plain truth of the moment.
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For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.
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The sage acts by doing nothing.
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