Perfection is the willingness to be imperfect.
LAOZIWhen virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.
More Laozi Quotes
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The past has no power to stop you from being present now. Only your grievance about the past can do that. What is grievance? The baggage of old thought and emotion.
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The Great Tao flows everywhere, to the left and to the right, all things depend on it to exist, and it does not abandon them. To its accomplishments it lays no claims. It loves and nourished all things, but does not lord it over them.
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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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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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The sage is not ill, because he sees illness as illness.
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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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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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Wear down to be renewed.
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Mastering others is strength. Mastering oneself makes you fearless.
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Rule your mind with serenity rather than with force and manipulation.
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A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
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What people loathe the most is to be orphaned, desolate, unworthy. But this is what princes and kings call themselves.
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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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Make your heart like a lake, with calm, still surface, and great depths of kindness.
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If people live in constant fear of death, and if breaking the law is punished by death, then who would dare?
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The more weapons of violence, the more misery to mankind. The triumph of violence ends in a festival of mourning.
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Quarrel with a friend – and you are both wrong.
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I am wearied, as if I lacked a home to go to.
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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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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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There was something that finished chaos, born before Heaven and Earth.
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With virtue and quietness one may conquer the world.
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The more laws that are written, the more criminals are produced.
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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.
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For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.
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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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