Meet the big while it is small.
LAOZIThat the soft overcomes the hard, and the yielding overcomes the resistant, is a fact known by all, but practiced by few.
More Laozi Quotes
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If you have really attained wholeness, everything will flock to you.
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Happiness perches on misery. Misery crouches beneath happiness.
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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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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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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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Meandering leads to perfection.
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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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I am wearied, as if I lacked a home to go to.
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A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants. A good scientist has freed himself of concepts and keeps his mind open to what is.
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He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.
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What people loathe the most is to be orphaned, desolate, unworthy. But this is what princes and kings call themselves.
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Heavy is the root of light.
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When you have accomplished your goal simply walk away. This is the path way to Heaven.
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A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
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Become totally empty Quiet the restlessness of the mind Only then will you witness everything unfolding from emptiness
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