Laozi Quotes, War Quotes, Calamity Quotes

There is no calamity greater than lightly engaging in war.

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Why not simply honor your parents, love your children, help your brothers and sisters, be faithful to your friends, care for your mate with devotion, complete your work cooperatively and joyfully, assume responsibility for problems, practice virtue without first demanding it of others, understand the highest truths yet retain an ordinary manner? That would be true clarity, true simplicity, true mastery.

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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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If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never be truly fulfilled.

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When everyone in the world sees beauty, then ugly exists.

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The more sharp weapons people have in a country, the bigger the disorder will be.

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People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.

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Peace and quiet govern the world.

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Yielding is the way of the Tao.

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The river and the sea can be kings of a hundred valleys, because they lie below them.

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The value comes from what is there, but the use comes from what is not there.

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Those who are right do not argue. Those who argue are not right.

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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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Highest good is like water. Because water excels in benefiting the myriad creatures without contending with them and settles where none would like to be, it comes closest to the way.

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The longer you travel, the less you know.

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Rituals are the end of fidelity and honesty, and the beginning of confusion.

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Everything in the universe is created from something, which in turn is created from nothing.

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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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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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The Way to do is to be.

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