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  • Heaven's Way is like stretching a bow. The high is lowered and the low is raised. Excess is reduced and deficiency is replenished. Heaven's Way reduces excess and replenishes deficiency. People's Way is not so. They reduce the deficient and supply the excessive.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Laozi Quotes , People Quotes , Heaven Quotes
  • Those who know others are intelligent Those who know themselves have insight. Those who master others have force Those who master themselves have strength.Those who know what is enough are wealthy. Those who persevere have direction. Those who maintain their position endure. And those who die and yet do not perish, live on.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Laozi Quotes , Intelligent Quotes , Persevere Quotes
  • Keep your mouth shut, and close up the doors of sight and sound, and as long as you live you will have no vexation. But open your mouth, or become inquisitive, and you will be in trouble all your life long.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Laozi Quotes , Sight Quotes , Doors Quotes
  • When one gives whatever one can without restraint, the barriers of individuality break down. It no longer becomes possible to tell whether it is the student offering himself to the teacher, or the teacher offering herself to the student. One sees only two immaculate beings, reflecting one another like a pair of brilliant mirrors.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Laozi Quotes , Teacher Quotes , Two Quotes
  • Be humble and you will remain entire. The sages do not display themselves, therefore they shine. They do not approve themselves, therefore they are noted. They do not praise themselves, therefore they have merit. They do not glory in themselves, therefore they excel.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Laozi Quotes , Humble Quotes , Humility Quotes
  • The best soldier does not attack. The superior fighter succeeds without violence. The greatest conqueror wins without struggle. The most successful manager leads without dictating. This is intelligent non aggressiveness.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Laozi Quotes , Peace Quotes , Struggle Quotes
  • My teachings are easy to understand and easy to put into practice. Yet your intellect will never grasp them, and if you try to practice them, you'll fail. My teachings are older than the world. How can you grasp their meaning? If you want to know me, look inside your heart.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Laozi Quotes , Teaching Quotes , Heart Quotes
  • Most of the world's religions serve only to strengthen attachments to false concepts such as self and other, life and death, heaven and earth, and so on. Those who become entangled in these false ideas are prevented from perceiving the Integral Oneness.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Laozi Quotes , Life Quotes , Attachment Quotes