True perfection seems imperfect, Laozi More Quotes by Laozi More Quotes From Laozi Those who understand others are clever, those who understand themselves are wise. Laozi wisecleverknowledge The one who is conscious (in Tao) can't speak. The one who can speak is not conscious (centered in Tao) Laozi taoconsciousspeak The mystical techniques for achieving immortality are revealed only to those who have dissolved all ties to the gross worldly realm of duality, conflict, and dogma. As long as your shallow worldly ambitions exist, the door will not open. Laozi tiesambitiondoors Can you dissolve your ego? Can you abandon the idea of self and other? Can you relinquish the notions of male and female, short and long, life and death? Can you let go of all these dualities and embrace the Tao without skepticism or panic? If so, you can reach the heart of the Integral Oneness. Laozi selfletting-goheart Those who act will fail. Those who seize will lose. Laozi taoismlosesfailing Abandon knowledge and your worries are over. Laozi taoismworryknowledge The world is ruled by letting things take their course. It cannot be ruled by interfering. Laozi coursesletting-goworld When you have accomplished your goal simply walk away. This is the path way to Heaven. Laozi taoismgoalheaven Some help others in order to receive blessings and admiration. This is simply meaningless. Some cultivate themselves in part to serve others, in part to serve their own pride. They will understand, at best, half of the truth. But those who improve themselves for the sake of the world - to these, the whole truth of the universe will be revealed. Laozi pridehelping-othersblessing Worlds and particles, bodies and beings, time and space: All are transient expressions of the Tao. Laozi spaceexpressiontime If you correct your mind the rest of your life will fall into place. Laozi positiveinspirationallife 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 honorfriendshipmen . . . These are notions of the mind, which is like a knife, always chipping away at the Tao, trying to render it graspable and manageable. But that which is beyond form is ungraspable, and that which is beyond knowing is unmanageable. There is, however, this consolation: She who lets go of the knife will find the Tao at her fingertips. Laozi knivesknowingletting-go All men desire to free themselves solely from death; they do not know how to free themselves from life. Laozi taoismdesiremen If you realize that you have enough, you are truly rich. Laozi tao-te-chinglearninginspirational When you find the way/ others will find you./ Passing by on the road/ they will be drawn to your door./ The way that cannot be heard/ will be echoed in your voice./ The way that cannot be seen/ will be reflected in your eyes. Laozi eyedoorsinspirational If you want everything, you first have to give everything up. Laozi hard-timeswantgiving Softness triumphs over hardness, feebleness over strength. What is more malleable is always superior over that which is immoveable. This is the principle of controlling things by going along with them, of mastery through adaptation. Laozi masterytriumphprinciples 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 taoismskyheart Hope and fear are both phantoms that arise from thinking of the self. When we don't see the self as self, what do we have to fear? Laozi tao-te-chingselfthinking
