black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Become totally empty Quiet the restlessness of the mind Only then will you witness everything unfolding from emptiness

Laozi

Be as the still mountain; Move like the great river.
LAOZI

Great Mountain Move River
Happiness perches on misery. Misery crouches beneath happiness.
LAOZI

Crouch Happiness Misery
Excellent warriors are not violent.
LAOZI

Excellent Taoism Violent Warrior
Filling all the way to the brim is not as good as halting in time.
LAOZI

Brim Fill Halt Taoism Way
Weapons are instruments of fear; they are not a wise man’s tools. He uses them only when he has no choice.
LAOZI

Choice Instrument Men Tool Weapon Wise
There was something that finished chaos, born before Heaven and Earth.
LAOZI

Earth Finish Heaven Something Taoism
If you have really attained wholeness, everything will flock to you.
LAOZI

Everything Flock Mindfulness Wholeness
The master accomplishes more and more by doing less and less until finally he accomplishes everything by doing nothing.
LAOZI

Accomplish Doing Master Nothing
Some lose yet gain, others gain and yet lose
LAOZI

Gain Inspirational Lose People Some
Stop thinking, and end your problems.
LAOZI

Country Life People Taoism Thinking
Follow diligently the Way in your own heart, but make no display of it to the world.
LAOZI

Compassion Heart Humility World
Giving birth and nourishing, Bearing yet not possessing, Working yet not taking credit, Leading yet not dominating, This is the Primal Virtue.
LAOZI

Country Credit Giving Lead People Tke
Take [preventive] action before things happen. Establish order before disorder has begun.
LAOZI

Action Begun Establish Happen Order
The weak overcomes the strong. The soft overcomes the hard. Everybody in the world knows this, still nobody makes use of it.
LAOZI

Everybody Overcome Strong Taoism
. . . the mind is desperate to fix the river {of events} in place: Possessed by ideas of the past, preoccupied with images of the future, it overlooks the plain truth of the moment.
LAOZI

Idea Past Possessed Truth
When the intelligent and animal souls are held together in one embrace, they can be kept from separating.
LAOZI

Animal Intelligent Separate Soul

Become totally empty Quiet the restlessness of the mind Only then will you witness everything unfolding from emptiness

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Become totally empty Quiet the restlessness of the mind Only then will you witness everything unfolding from emptiness

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Laozi Quotes