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The Tao is unpredictable to those that live according to plans. Only those who have no agenda are in harmony with the Tao (Laozi Quotes)
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 (Laozi Quotes)
Words spoken about the Way have no taste. When looked at, there’s not enough to see. When listened to, there’s not enough to hear. When used, it is never exhausted (Laozi Quotes)
The nameless is the beginning of Heaven and Earth. The named is the mother of all things (Laozi Quotes)
Is not the space between Heaven and Earth like a bellows? It is empty, but lacks nothing. The more it moves, the more comes out of it (Laozi Quotes)
Man is ruled by Earth. Earth is ruled by Heaven. Heaven is ruled by the Way. The Way is ruled by itself (Laozi Quotes)
The superior student listens to the Way and follows it closely. The average student listens to the Way and follows some and some not. The lesser student listens to the Way and laughs out loud. If there were no laughter it would not be the Way (Laozi Quotes)
Use justice to rule a country. Use surprise to wage war. Use non-action to govern the world (Laozi Quotes)
Supreme good is like water. Water greatly benefits all things, without conflict. It flows through places that people loathe. Thereby it is close to the Way (Laozi Quotes)
What Heaven detests, who knows why? Even the sage considers it difficult (Laozi Quotes)
When the Way governs the world, the proud stallions drag dung carriages. When the Way is lost to the world, war horses are bred outside the city (Laozi Quotes)
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 (Laozi Quotes)
Those who are highly evolved, maintain an undiscriminating perception. Seeing everything, labeling nothing, they maintain their awareness of the Great Oneness. Thus they are supported by it (Laozi Quotes)
To realize that our knowledge is ignorance, This is a noble insight. To regard our ignorance as knowledge, This is mental sickness. Only when we are sick of the sickness Shall we cease to be sick. The Sage is not sick, being sick of sickness; This is the secret of health (Laozi Quotes)
To know people is wisdom, but to know yourself is enlightenment. to master people takes force, but to master yourself takes strength. to know contentment is wealth, and to live with strength resolve. to never leave whatever you are is to abide, and to die without getting lost- that is to live on and on (Laozi Quotes)
Water is the softest thing, yet it can penetrate mountains and earth. This shows clearly the principle of softness overcoming hardness (Laozi Quotes)
In the Golden Age, Rulers were unknown. In the following age Rulers were loved and praised. Next came the age When rulers were feared. Finally the age When rulers are hated (Laozi Quotes)
Though (the Tao) is uncreated itself, it creates all things. Because it has no substance, it can enter into where there is no space. Exercising by returning to itself, winning victories by remaining gentle and yielding, it is softer than anything, and therefore overcomes everything hard (Laozi Quotes)
Surrender your self-interest. Love others as much as you love yourself. Then you can be entrusted with all things under heaven (Laozi Quotes)
The True Person benefits yet expects no reward, does the work and moves on. There is no desire to be considered better than others (Laozi Quotes)
The mark of a moderate man is freedom from his own ideas. Tolerant like the sky, all-pervading like sunlight, firm like a mountain, supple like a tree in the wind, he has no destination in view and makes use of anything life happens to bring his way (Laozi Quotes)
Failure is an opportunity. If you blame someone else, there is no end to the blame. Therefore the Master fulfills her own obligations and corrects her own mistakes. She does what she needs to do and demands nothing of others (Laozi Quotes)
The first practice is the practice of undiscriminating virtue: take care of those who are deserving; also, and equally, take care of those who are not. When you extend your virtue in all directions without discriminating, you feet are firmly planted on the path that returns to the Tao (Laozi Quotes)
As it acts in the world, the Tao is like the bending of a bow. The top is bent downward; the bottom is bent up. It adjusts excess and deficiency so that there is perfect balance (Laozi Quotes)
When Simplicity is broken up, it is made into instruments. Evolved individuals who employ them, are made into leaders. In this way, the Great System is United (Laozi Quotes)
The Master observes the world, but trusts his inner vision. He allows things to come and go. His heart is as open as the sky (Laozi Quotes)
When you have accomplished your goal simply walk away. This is the path way to Heaven (Laozi Quotes)
The Master doesn’t seek fulfillment. For only those who are not full are able to be used which brings the feeling of completeness (Laozi Quotes)
Approach the universe with Tao, And evil will have no power. Not that evil is not powerful, But its power will not be used to harm others (Laozi Quotes)
The gentlest thing in the world overcomes the hardest thing in the world. That which has no substance enters where there is no space. This shows the value of non-action. Teaching without words, performing without actions: that is the Master’s way (Laozi Quotes)