Laozi Quotes, Ignorance Quotes, Knowledge Quotes

To realize that our knowledge is ignorance, This is a noble insight. To regard our ignorance as knowledge, This is mental sickness. Only when we are sick of the sickness Shall we cease to be sick. The Sage is not sick, being sick of sickness; This is the secret of health.

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When his (the good ruler's) task is accomplished and his work done, The people all say, "It happened to us naturally.

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What is and what is not create each other.

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All things in nature work silently. They come into being and possess nothing. They fulfill their function and make no claim. All things alike do their work, and then we see them subside. When they have reached their bloom, each returns to its origin. . . . This reversion is an eternal law. To know that law is wisdom.

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Fine words are traded. Noble deeds gain respect. But people who are not good, why abandon them?

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He does not seek power - yet people follow him.

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Simplicity has no name is free of desires. Being free of desires it is tranquil. And the world will be at peace of it's own accord.

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

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All men desire to free themselves solely from death; they do not know how to free themselves from life.

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Having reached a high level of realization (or having accomplished anything in life), don't get excited or puffed up with pride but remain calm, humble, and in "perfect equanimity" if you want to continue in this deep state of consciousness.

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Bend and you will be straight.

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Wear down to be renewed.

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A follower of the Way (Tao) loses something each day. Loss after loss until arriving at Non Action (Wu Wei).

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I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

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To bear the country's disgrace is to rule the shrines of soil and grain. To bear the country's misfortunes is to be the king of the world.

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The sage embraces the one, and is an example to the world.

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Go to the people. Learn from them. Live with them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. The best of leaders when the job is done, when the task is accomplished, the people will say we have done it ourselves.

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If your virtue is especially radiant, it can be possible to open a pathway to the subtle realm and receive these celestial teachings directly from the immortals.

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What the Way is to the world, the stream is to the river and the sea.

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Those who know when it is enough will not perish.

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