To know you have enough is to be rich.
LAOZIIn the highest antiquity, the people did not know that there were rulers. In the next age they loved them and praised them. In the next they feared them; in the next they despised them.
More Laozi Quotes
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The ego is entranced by … names and ideas… However names and concepts only block your perception of this Great Oneness. Therefore it is wise to ignore them. Those who live inside their egos are continually bewildered.
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Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.
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Face the simple fact before it comes involved. Solve the small problem before it becomes big.
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Meet the difficult while it is easy.
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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 has achieved this state Is unconcerned with friends and enemies, With good and harm, with honor and disgrace. This therefore is the highest state of man.
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Quarrel with a friend – and you are both wrong.
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When the intelligent and animal souls are held together in one embrace, they can be kept from separating.
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Loss is not as bad as wanting more.
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Fail to honor people, they fail to honor you.
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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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He that humbles himself shall be preserved entire. He that bends shall be made straight. He that is empty shall be filled. He that is worn out shall be renewed. He who has little shall succeed. He who has much shall go astray.
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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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What people loathe the most is to be orphaned, desolate, unworthy. But this is what princes and kings call themselves.
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A foolish man is always doing, Yet much remains to be done.
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