Laozi Quotes, Creative Quotes, Taoism Quotes

When you accurately perceive the fluidity of things, you can also begin to perceive the constancy behind them: the creative, transformative, boundless, immutable Tao.

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The best athlete wants his opponent at his best. The best general enters the mind of his enemy. The best businessman serves the communal good. The best leader follows the will of the people. All of the embody the virtue of non-competition. Not that they don't love to compete, but they do it in the spirit of play. In this they are like children and in harmony with the Tao.

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Take time to listen to what is said without words, to obey the law too subtle to be written, to worship the unnameable and to embrace the unformed.

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Knowing constancy, the mind is open. With an open mind, you will be openhearted. Being openhearted you will act royally. Being royal, you will attain the divine. Being divine, you will be at one with the Tao. Being at one with the Tao is eternal. Though the body dies, the Tao will never pass away.

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Loving, hating, having expectations: all these are attachments. Attachment prevents the growth of one's true being.

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Carrying body and soul and embracing the one, Can you avoid separation?

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When family ties are disturbed, devoted children arise.

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The eye with which you see God is the same eye with which God sees you; one in seeing; one in knowing; one in loving.

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If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve

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Giving birth and nourishing, Bearing yet not possessing, Working yet not taking credit, Leading yet not dominating, This is the Primal Virtue.

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Returning to the source is stillness, which is the way of nature. The way of nature is unchanging. Knowing constancy is insight.

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Truly, only those who see illness as illness can avoid illness.

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Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge.

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The sage knows without traveling, perceives without looking, completes without acting.

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The highest tone is hard to hear.

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Movement overcomes cold.

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Water benefits the ten thousand things and does not oppose them.

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The truly great ones rely on substance, and not on surface, hold on to the fruit, and not to the flower.

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That so few understand me is why I am treasured.

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The value of actions lies in their timing.

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