Laozi Quotes, Truth Quotes, Past Quotes

. . . the mind is desperate to fix the river {of events} in place: Possessed by ideas of the past, preoccupied with images of the future, it overlooks the plain truth of the moment.

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When wisdom and knowledge appear, great pretense arises.

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The ancient Masters didn't try to educate the people, but kindly taught them to not-know. When they think that they know the answers, people are difficult to guide. When they know that they don't know, people can find their own way. If you want to learn how to govern, avoid being clever or rich. The simplest pattern is the clearest. Content with an ordinary life, you can show all people the way back to their own true nature.

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A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.

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A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

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A man is born gentle and weak. At death he is hard and stiff.

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What is strong and rigid is snapped and laid low. What is flexible and soft will always prevail.

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First and last follow each other.

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If I have even just a little sense, I will walk on the main road and my only fear will be of straying from it. Keeping to the main road is easy, But people love to be sidetracked.

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In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.

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The very highest is barely known. Then comes that which people know and love, Then that which is feared, Then that which is despised. Who does not trust enough will not be trusted.

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Peace and quiet are preferred. Victory should not be praised.

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Nature does not have to insist.

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To rule by knowledge ravages the country.

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Because every portion of the body, mind, and spirit yearns for the integration of yin and yang, angelic intercourse is led by the spirit rather than the sexual organs. . . . Where ordinary intercourse unites sex organs with sex organs, angelic cultivation unites spirit with spirit, mind with mind, and every cell of one body with every cell of the other body.

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The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth.

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Distortion upon distortion: . . . the more one uses the mind, the more confused one becomes.

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No misfortune is worse than underestimating the enemy. Underestimating the enemy, I risk losing my treasure.

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Clay is used to make vases, but it is the emptiness they contain that makes them useful.

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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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