Make your heart like a lake, with calm, still surface, and great depths of kindness.
LAOZINot all spiritual paths lead to the harmonious Oneness. Indeed, most are detours and distractions, nothing more.
More Laozi Quotes
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To rejoice in conquest is to rejoice in murder.
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Stop thinking, and end your problems.
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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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Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is enlightenment.
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Happiness perches on misery. Misery crouches beneath happiness.
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Those who act will fail. Those who seize will lose.
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…the more you talk of it, the less you understand.
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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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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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That the soft overcomes the hard, and the yielding overcomes the resistant, is a fact known by all, but practiced by few.
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A multitude of words is tiresome, unlike remaining centered.
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To be constantly without desire is the way to have a vision of the mystery of heaven and earth. For constantly to have desire is the means by which their limitations are seen.
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Keep behind, and you shall be put in front; keep out, and you shall be kept in.
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Meandering leads to perfection.
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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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