If you want everything, you first have to give everything up. Laozi More Quotes by Laozi More Quotes From Laozi Who is unhappy with little, won't be with much; who doesn't appreciate the small won't be able to take care of the large; who doesn't have enough with enough is at the margin or virtue, for the physical body lives from one day to another and if it gets what it really needs, there will be time for meditation, as long as if we try to give it everything it desires, endless will be the task. Laozi appreciate giving long The supreme good is like water, which nourishes all things without trying to. It is content with the low places that people disdain. Thus it is like the Tao. In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present. When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you. Laozi simple dwelling thinking Can you let go of words and ideas, attitudes and expectations? If so, then the Tao will loom into view. Laozi views letting-go attitude If you wish to be out front, then act as if you were behind. Laozi success inspiring inspirational Be truly whole, and all things will return to you. Laozi return awareness all-things The real art of governing consists, so far as possible, in doing nothing. Laozi political real art Silence is a source of great strenght. Laozi strenght source silence All action begins in rest... This is the ultimate truth. Laozi ultimate-truth ultimate action The fourth (of the four cardinal virtues) is supportiveness: this manifests as service to others without expectation of reward. (Paraphrased: Such service is not a mere conforming to some external rule of behavior, but instead a manifestation of your original nature). Laozi four nature expectations Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. This is another paradox: what is soft is strong. Laozi strong spiritual inspiring To be learned, add something each day. To be enlightened drop something each day. Laozi enlightened each-day add I observe myself and I come to know others. Laozi knows . . . 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 truth past ideas Kindness in giving creates love. Laozi kindness motivational inspirational To know that you do not know is the best. To pretend to know when you do not know is a disease. Laozi ignorance book knowledge The sage avoids extremity, excess, and extravagance. Laozi taoism excess extravagance Although most people spend their entire lives following this biological impulse (i.e. the sex drive), it is only a tiny portion of our beings. . . . If we remain obsessed with seeds and eggs, we are married to the fertile reproductive valley of the Mysterious Mother but not to her immeasurable heart and all-knowing mind. Laozi mother heart sex If you scramble about in search of inner peace, you will lose your inner peace. Laozi taoism inner-peace ifs A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving. Laozi summer inspirational life Things flourish, then each returns to its root. Returning to the root is called stillness: Stillness is called return to life, return to life is called the constant; knowing the constant is called enlightenment. Laozi knowing spiritual roots
