What is and what is not create each other. Laozi More Quotes by Laozi More Quotes From Laozi If you want to be given everything, give everything up. Laozi taoismtao-te-chinggiving (The Tao) is always present and always available. . . . If you are willing to be lived by it, you will see it everywhere, even in the most ordinary things. Laozi taoismphilosophylife Praise of power leads to weakness; Love of things leads to loss; The wise one leads by filling people's hearts; He destroys illusion and disturbs those who believe they are wise; He does nothing yet everything happens. Laozi wiseheartbelieve ...the more you talk of it, the less you understand. Laozi saints-and-sinnerstaoismtao-te-ching . . . learn to value what is important today in the subtle realm rather than what appears desirable tomorrow in the worldly realm. Laozi learningimportanttoday From wonder into wonder existence opens. Laozi taoismawakeninginspirational If lightning is the anger of the gods, then the gods are concerned mostly about trees. Laozi concernedlightningtree If you wish to become a divine immortal angel, then restore the angelic qualities of your being through virtue and service. This is the only way to gain the attention of the immortals... These angelic teachers cannot be sought out; it is they who seek out the student. When you succeed in connecting your energy with the divine realm through high awareness and the practice of undiscriminating virtue, the transmission of the ultimate subtle truths will follow. Laozi angelpracticeteacher The more prohibitions you have, the less virtuous people will be. The more weapons you have, the less secure people will be. The more subsidies you have, the less self reliant people will be. Laozi subsidiesselfpeople In this world, there is nothing softer or thinner than water. But to compel the hard and unyielding, it has no equal. That the weak overcomes the strong, that the hard gives way to the gentle - this everyone knows. Yet no one asks accordingly. Laozi strongkindnessgiving Those who know it do not speak about it. Those who speak about it do not know it. Laozi taoismspeakknowledge Approach your own inner life with a loving quality that accepts who you are without trying to change who you are. Laozi taoismqualitytrying He who accounts all things easy will have many difficulties. Laozi accountsdifficultyeasy Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires. Laozi selfishsimpleinspirational The sense organs, which are limited in scope and ability, randomly gather information. This partial information is arranged into judgments, which are based on previous judgments, which are usually based on someone else's foolish ideas. These false concepts and ideas are then stored in a highly selective memory system. Laozi informationmemoriesideas The biggest in the world is small in its beginning. Laozi world-is-smalltaoismworld It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins. Laozi follow-your-heartnatureinspirational Truly, only those who see illness as illness can avoid illness. Laozi taoismillnessknowledge Take [preventive] action before things happen. Establish order before disorder has begun. Laozi actionhappensorder Embrace simplicity. Put others first. Desire little. Laozi taoismsimplicitydesire
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