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The seed of mystery lies in muddy water. How can I perceive this mystery? Water becomes clear through stillness. How can I become still? By flowing with the stream. (Laozi Quotes)
Close your mouth, block off your senses, blunt your sharpness, untie your knots, soften your glare, settle your dust. This is the primal identity. (Laozi Quotes)
Distortion upon distortion: . . . the more one uses the mind, the more confused one becomes (Laozi Quotes)
I alone have the mind of a fool, and am all muddled and vague. The people are so smart and bright. While I am just dull and confused. (Laozi Quotes)
Rule a kingdom as though you were cooking a small fish - don’t overdo it (Laozi Quotes)
Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish, too much handling will spoil it (Laozi Quotes)
If you close your mind in judgements and traffic with desires, your heart will be troubled. If you keep your mind from judging and aren’t led by the senses, your heart will find peace. (Laozi Quotes)
Heaven and earth are ruthless, and treat the various creatures as straw dogs; the sage is ruthless, and treats others as straw dogs. (Laozi Quotes)
People aren’t against you; they are for themselves. The most dangerous risk of all - the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later. He who conquers others is strong, he who conquers himself is mighty. (Laozi Quotes)
Live simply and virtuously, true to your nature, drawing no line between what is spiritual and what is not. (Laozi Quotes)
Nature’s way is simple and easy, but men prefer the intricate and artificial (Laozi Quotes)
The great Way is easy, yet people prefer the side paths. Be aware when things are out of balance. Stay centered within the Tao. (Laozi Quotes)
We join spokes together in a wheel, but it is the center hole that makes the wagon move. We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want. We hammer wood for a house, but it is the inner space that makes it livable. We work with being, but non-being is what we use. (Laozi Quotes)
Thirty spokes meet in the hub, but the empty space between them is the essence of the wheel. Pots are formed from clay, but the empty space within it is the essence of the pot. Walls with windows and doors form the house, but the empty space within it is the essence of the home. (Laozi Quotes)
. . . the integral being is attached to nothing and can relate to everyone with an unstructured attitude. Because of this, her very existence benefits all things. (Laozi Quotes)
Open yourself to the truth, then trust in your natural responses, and everything will fall into place. (Laozi Quotes)
Weapons are instruments of fear; they are not a wise man’s tools. He uses them only when he has no choice. (Laozi Quotes)
Simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being. Patient with both friends and enemies, you accord with the way things are. Compassionate toward yourself, you reconcile all beings in the world. (Laozi Quotes)
Just as the value of a house lies in its location, The value of a mind lies in its depth, The value of giving lies in the presence of a generous spirit, The value of words lies in their reliability. (Laozi Quotes)
If one desires to receive one must first give. This is called profound understanding. (Laozi Quotes)
Kindness in thinking creates profundity. Kindness in giving creates love. (Laozi Quotes)
We desire to understand the world by giving names to the things we see, but these things are only the effects of something subtle. (Laozi Quotes)
The group will not prosper if the leader grabs the lion’s share of the credit for the good work that has been done. (Laozi Quotes)
Correct becomes defect. Good becomes ominous. People’s delusions have certainly lasted long. (Laozi Quotes)
In the Way of Heaven, there is no partiality of love; it is always on the side of the good man (Laozi Quotes)
True words are not fancy. Fancy words are not true. The good do not debate. Debaters are not good. (Laozi Quotes)
When taxes are too high, people go hungry. When the government is too intrusive, people lose their spirit. Act for the people’s benefit. Trust them; leave them alone. (Laozi Quotes)
Great accomplishment seems imperfect, Yet it does not outlive its usefulness. Great fullness seems empty, Yet it cannot be exhausted. (Laozi Quotes)
A great country is like the lower outlet of a river. It is the world’s meeting ground, the world’s female. (Laozi Quotes)
One’s own self or material goods, which has more worth? Loss (of self) or possession (of goods), which is the greater evil? He who loves most, spends most, He who hoards much loses much (Laozi Quotes)