It is better not to make merit a matter of reward Lest people conspire and contend. Laozi More Quotes by Laozi More Quotes From Laozi A sage is skilled at helping people without excluding anyone. Laozi sage taoism people Can you love or guide someone without any kind of expectation? Laozi taoism kind expectations Nurture the spontaneous peaceful life. Laozi spontaneous taoism peaceful A good calculator does not need artificial aids. Laozi doe math needs Sages do not accumulate for themselves. The more they give to others, the more they possess of their own. The way of Heaven is to benefit others and not to injure. Laozi sage giving heaven If you want to accord with the Tao, just do your job, then let go. Laozi letting-go work jobs What man has more than enough and gives it to the world? Only the man of Tao. Laozi generosity giving men Highest good is like water. Because water excels in benefiting the myriad creatures without contending with them and settles where none would like to be, it comes closest to the way. Laozi love water way Mask your brightness. Be at one with the dust of the earth. This is primal union. Laozi unions dust earth Love is the greatest link that we have with those who have temporarily left us. Laozi links love death Bend and you will be straight. Laozi flexibility Don't think you can attain total awareness and whole enlightenment without proper discipline and practice. This is egomania. Appropriate rituals channel your emotions and life energy toward the light. Without the discipline to practice them, you will tumble constantly backward into darkness. Laozi light life thinking There is no greater sin than desire, No greater curse than discontent, No greater misfortune than wanting something for oneself. Therefore he who knows that enough is enough will always have enough. Laozi sin enough desire Abandon learning and there will be no sorrow. Laozi abandon learning sorrow Without going out-of-doors, one can know all he needs to know. Without even looking out of his window, one can grasp the nature of everything. Without going beyond his own nature, one can achieve ultimate wisdom. Therefore, the intelligent man knows all he needs to know without going away, And sees all he needs to see without looking elsewhere, And does all he needs to do wihout undue exertion. Laozi intelligent doors men The more prohibitions you have, the less virtuous people will be. Try to make people moral, and you lay the groundwork for vice. Laozi vices trying people Rushing into action, you fail. Trying to grasp things, you lose them. Forcing a project to completion, you ruin what was almost ripe. Laozi rushing failure trying Those who know others are intelligent Those who know themselves have insight. Those who master others have force Those who master themselves have strength.Those who know what is enough are wealthy. Those who persevere have direction. Those who maintain their position endure. And those who die and yet do not perish, live on. Laozi persevere intelligent enough It's hard to keep your balance standing tip-toe. Laozi toes standing balance Nature does not have to insist. Laozi doe
