Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is enlightenment.
LAOZITo lead, one must follow.
More Laozi Quotes
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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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What resists, persists.
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If there is to be peace in the home, There must be peace in the heart.
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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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Covetousness is the greatest misfortune. One who does not know what is enough will never have enough.
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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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Those who know are wise. Those who know themselves are enlightened.
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If a person seems wicked, do not cast him away. Awaken him with your words, elevate him with your deeds, repay his injury with your kindness. Do not cast him away; cast away his wickedness.
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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 wise man knows he doesn’t know.
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The wise man knows without traveling.
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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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All men desire to free themselves solely from death; they do not know how to free themselves from life.
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A tree that is unbending, is easily broken.
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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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Nature is not human hearted.
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A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
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There was something that finished chaos, born before Heaven and Earth.
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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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…the more you talk of it, the less you understand.
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Be as the still mountain; Move like the great river.
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Filling all the way to the brim is not as good as halting in time.
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Make your heart like a lake, with calm, still surface, and great depths of kindness.
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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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A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.
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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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