If there is to be peace in the home, There must be peace in the heart.
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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Make your heart like a lake, with calm, still surface, and great depths of kindness.
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When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.
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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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Softness triumphs over hardness, feebleness over strength. What is more malleable is always superior over that which is immoveable. This is the principle of controlling things by going along with them, of mastery through adaptation.
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Those who act will fail. Those who seize will lose.
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If you want to be given everything, give everything up.
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In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don’t try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.
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Loss is not as bad as wanting more.
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Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is enlightenment.
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Rule your mind with serenity rather than with force and manipulation.
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A tree that is unbending, is easily broken.
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Take [preventive] action before things happen. Establish order before disorder has begun.
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Meet the big while it is small.
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An integral being knows without going, sees without looking, and accomplishes without doing.
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Make the small big and the few many.
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