If you can let go of (the Tao) with your mind and surround it with your heart, it will live inside you forever.
LAOZIIf you can let go of (the Tao) with your mind and surround it with your heart, it will live inside you forever.
LAOZIFollow diligently the Way in your own heart, but make no display of it to the world.
LAOZIRule your mind with serenity rather than with force and manipulation.
LAOZIThe Master doesn’t seek fulfillment. For only those who are not full are able to be used which brings the feeling of completeness.
LAOZIThe 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.
LAOZIInstead 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.
LAOZIGiving birth and nourishing, Bearing yet not possessing, Working yet not taking credit, Leading yet not dominating, This is the Primal Virtue.
LAOZIThere was something that finished chaos, born before Heaven and Earth.
LAOZIThe light of the Way seems dim.
LAOZIWhen pure sincerity forms within, it is outwardly realized in other people’s hearts.
LAOZIAll men desire to free themselves solely from death; they do not know how to free themselves from life.
LAOZIMake the small big and the few many.
LAOZIThe more weapons of violence, the more misery to mankind. The triumph of violence ends in a festival of mourning.
LAOZIThe great image lacks shape.
LAOZIThose who know are wise. Those who know themselves are enlightened.
LAOZIIf 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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