If you want to be given everything, give everything up.
LAOZIIf people live in constant fear of death, and if breaking the law is punished by death, then who would dare?
More Laozi Quotes
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Instead 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.
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An integral being knows without going, sees without looking, and accomplishes without doing.
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Quarrel with a friend – and you are both wrong.
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When the Way is lost there is virtue. When virtue is lost there is benevolence. When benevolence is lost there is righteousness. When righteousness is lost there are rituals.
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Face the simple fact before it comes involved. Solve the small problem before it becomes big.
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What is a good man but a bad man’s teacher? What is a bad man but a good man’s job? If you do not remember this, You will get lost, No matter how intelligent you are. It is the great secret.
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When the uncarved wood is split, its parts are put to use. When the sage is put to use, he becomes the head.
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Empty yourself of everything. Let the mind become still. The ten thousand things rise and fall while the Self watches their return. They grow and flourish and then return to the source. Returning to the source is stillness, which is the way of nature.
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Mastering others is strength. Mastering oneself makes you fearless.
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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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Not praising the deserving prevents envy.
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Filling all the way to the brim is not as good as halting in time.
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A tree that is unbending, is easily broken.
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What resists, persists.
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If you have really attained wholeness, everything will flock to you.
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When people see some things as good, other things become bad.
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The more prohibitions you have, the less virtuous people will be. Try to make people moral, and you lay the groundwork for vice.
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Heavy is the root of light.
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All men desire to free themselves solely from death; they do not know how to free themselves from life.
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The sage knows himself, but does not parade. He cherishes himself, but does not praise himself.
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Wear down to be renewed.
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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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Make the small big and the few many.
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With virtue and quietness one may conquer the world.
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The world is ruled by letting things take their course. It cannot be ruled by interfering.
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The great image lacks shape.
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