What people loathe the most is to be orphaned, desolate, unworthy. But this is what princes and kings call themselves.
LAOZIEmpty 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.
More Laozi Quotes
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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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A multitude of words is tiresome, unlike remaining centered.
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Never take over the world to tamper with it. Those who want to tamper with it are not fit to take over the world.
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Some lose yet gain, others gain and yet lose
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Meet the difficult while it is easy.
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Make the small big and the few many.
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To rejoice in conquest is to rejoice in murder.
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A foolish man is always doing, Yet much remains to be done.
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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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Not praising the deserving prevents envy.
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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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When pure sincerity forms within, it is outwardly realized in other people’s hearts.
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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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Man’s enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.
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