Laozi Quotes, Tao Te Ching Quotes, Desire Quotes

To understand the limitation of things, desire them.

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My words are easy to understand and easy to perform, Yet no man under heaven knows them or practices them.

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The transformation toward eternal life is gradual. The heavy gross energy of body, mind, and spirit must first be purified and uplifted. When the energy ascends... then self mastery can be sought.

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Shape clay into a vessel; It is the space within that makes it useful. Cut doors and windows for a room; It is the holes which make it useful. Therefore benefit comes from what is there; Usefulness from what is not there.

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He does not praise himself - yet he is respectable.

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Although most people spend their entire lives following this biological impulse (i.e. the sex drive), it is only a tiny portion of our beings. . . . If we remain obsessed with seeds and eggs, we are married to the fertile reproductive valley of the Mysterious Mother but not to her immeasurable heart and all-knowing mind.

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The Tao is told is not the Tao.

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He who talks more is sooner exhausted.

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Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.

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The most eloquent seems to stutter.

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Nature's way is simple and easy, but men prefer the intricate and artificial.

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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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Take [preventive] action before things happen. Establish order before disorder has begun.

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Weapons are ominous tools. They are abhorred by all creatures. Anyone who follows the Way shuns them.

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The Way of Tao is this: It strives not, but conquers; It speaks not, but all is made clear; It summons not, but its house is crowded; It contrives not, but the design is perfect.

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One cannot reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.

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What has no substance can penetrate what has no opening.

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If princes and kings were not exalted they might be overthrown.

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Dualistic thinking is a sickness.

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I have no desire to desire, and people become like the uncarved wood by themselves.

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