Laozi Quotes, Practice Quotes, Oneness Quotes

Does one scent appeal more than another? Do you prefer this flavor, or that feeling? Is your practice sacred and your work profane? Then your mind is separated: from itself, from oneness, from the Tao.

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Failure is an opportunity. If you blame someone else, there is no end to the blame. Therefore the Master fulfills her own obligations and corrects her own mistakes. She does what she needs to do and demands nothing of others.

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. . . 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.

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Those who have compassion when they do battle will be victorious. Those who likewise defend themselves will be safe. Heaven will rescue and protect them with compassion.

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To know and not to do is not yet to know.

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Whatever is flexible and living will tend to grow; whatever is rigid and blocked will wither and die.

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That which offers no resistance can enter where there is no space.

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Truly, the greatest gift you have to give is that of your own self-transformation.

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The mature person perceives the fruitlessness of rigid, external methodologies.

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I am good to people who are good. I am also good to people who are not good. Because Virtue is goodness.

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Ancient masters of excellence had a subtle essence, and a depth too profound to comprehend.

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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 net of heaven is very wide in its meshes, and yet it misses nothing.

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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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Intellectual knowledge exists in and of the brain. Because the brain is part of the body, which must one day expire, this collection of facts, however large and impressive, will expire as well. {But spiritual insight transcends death.}

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The Tao is unpredictable to those that live according to plans. Only those who have no agenda are in harmony with the 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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True perfection seems imperfect, yet it is perfectly itself. True fullness seems empty, yet it is fully present. True straightness seems crooked. True wisdom seems foolish. True art seems artless. The Master allows things to happen. She shapes events as they come. She steps out of the way and lets the Tao speak for itself.

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Nature is not human hearted.

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The softest in the world surpasses the hardest in the world.

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