From caring comes courage.
LAOZIRespond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.
More Laozi Quotes
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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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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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If there is to be peace in the home, There must be peace in the heart.
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Nature is not human hearted.
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When the highest type of people hear Tao (Truth), they diligently practice it. When the average type of people hear Tao, they half believe in it. When the lowest type of people hear Tao, they laugh at it. If they did not laugh, it would not be Tao.
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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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. . . 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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In ancient times, those who followed the Way did not try to give people knowledge thereof, but kept them ignorant.
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Be careful what you water your dreams with. Water them with worry and fear and you will produce weeds that choke the life from your dream.
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If you have really attained wholeness, everything will flock to you.
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In order to eliminate the negative influences, simply ignore them.
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For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.
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The world’s beginning is its mother. To have found the mother is also to know the children. Although you know the children, cling to the mother. Until your last day you will not be harmed.
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Quarrel with a friend – and you are both wrong.
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The world’s big things only can be done by paying attention to their humble beginnings.
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