The seed of mystery lies in muddy water. How can I perceive this mystery? Water becomes clear through stillness. How can I become still? By flowing with the stream.
LAOZIThe 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.
More Laozi Quotes
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Take [preventive] action before things happen. Establish order before disorder has begun.
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Meandering leads to perfection.
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An integral being knows without going, sees without looking, and accomplishes without doing.
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If there is to be peace in the home, There must be peace in the heart.
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Filling all the way to the brim is not as good as halting in time.
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Mastering others is strength. Mastering oneself makes you fearless.
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To lead, one must follow.
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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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In order to eliminate the negative influences, simply ignore them.
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He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.
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Every step is on the path.
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The sage is not ill, because he sees illness as illness.
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The world is ruled by letting things take their course. It cannot be ruled by interfering.
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Perfection is the willingness to be imperfect.
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The sage acts by doing nothing.
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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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In ancient times, those who followed the Way did not try to give people knowledge thereof, but kept them ignorant.
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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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If you have really attained wholeness, everything will flock to you.
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A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants. A good scientist has freed himself of concepts and keeps his mind open to what is.
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A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.
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Simplicity has no name is free of desires. Being free of desires it is tranquil. And the world will be at peace of it’s own accord.
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Wear down to be renewed.
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…the more you talk of it, the less you understand.
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He who loves does not dispute: He who disputes does not love.
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Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.
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