Not praising the deserving prevents envy.
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.
More Laozi Quotes
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Empty your mind of all thoughts. Let your heart be at peace. Watch the turmoil of beings, but contemplate their return.
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If you can let go of (the Tao) with your mind and surround it with your heart, it will live inside you forever.
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Make the small big and the few many.
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Health is the greatest possession.
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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 foolish man is always doing, Yet much remains to be done.
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Stop thinking, and end your problems.
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The True Person benefits yet expects no reward, does the work and moves on. There is no desire to be considered better than others.
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A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
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Every step is on the path.
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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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The master accomplishes more and more by doing less and less until finally he accomplishes everything by doing nothing.
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Be as the still mountain; Move like the great river.
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The great image lacks shape.
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The great Way is all-pervading. It reaches to the left and to the right. All things depend on it with their existence. Still it demands no obedience.
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