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 More Quotes by Laozi More Quotes From Laozi 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 Don't imagine that you'll discover {the truth} by accumulating more knowledge. Knowledge creates doubt, and doubt makes you ravenous for more knowledge. You can't get full eating this way. Laozi truth doubt way The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. Laozi fortune-cookie journey steps Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory. - Diane Arbus By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning. Laozi victory winning giving When people see some things as beautiful, other things become ugly. When people see some things as good, other things become bad. Being and non-being create each other. Difficult and easy support each other. Long and short define each other. High and low depend on each other. Before and after follow each other. Therefore the Master acts without doing anything and teaches without saying anything. Things arise and she lets them come; things disappear and she lets them go. She has but doesn't possess, acts but doesn't expect. When her work is done, she forgets it. That is why it lasts forever. Laozi difficult-and-easy beautiful beauty The best way to manage anything is by making use of its own nature. Laozi best-way use way Face the simple fact before it comes involved. Solve the small problem before it becomes big. Laozi small-problems simple inspirational Force is followed by loss of strength. This is not the way of the Tao. That which goes against the Tao comes to an early end. Laozi strength loss way For all things difficult to acquire, the intelligent man works with perseverance. Laozi perseverance intelligent men Shape clay into a vessel; Laozi cutting space inspirational The more you know the less you understand. Laozi tao-te-ching mlm spiritual I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men. Laozi humility leadership men Men are born soft and supple; dead, they are stiff and hard. Plants are born tender and pliant; dead, they are brittle and dry. Thus whoever is stiff and inflexible is a disciple of death. Whoever is soft and yielding is a disciple of life. The hard and stiff will be broken. The soft and supple will prevail. Laozi inspirational life death Knowing constancy, the mind is open. Laozi knowing mind heart He who steals a hook shall be hanged; while he who steals the state shall be crowned as prince. Laozi hook stealing states If you can let go of (the Tao) with your mind and surround it with your heart, it will live inside you forever. Laozi letting-go forever heart I am at peace, and people become fair by themselves. Laozi taoism fairs people Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good. Laozi thought-provoking beautiful beauty He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much. Laozi generosity giving reality When one gives whatever one can without restraint, the barriers of individuality break down. It no longer becomes possible to tell whether it is the student offering himself to the teacher, or the teacher offering herself to the student. One sees only two immaculate beings, reflecting one another like a pair of brilliant mirrors. Laozi mirrors teacher two
