Laozi Quotes, Believe Quotes, Ideas Quotes

There is a big misunderstanding about the idea of naturalness. Most people who come to us believing in some freedom or naturalness, but their understanding is what we call [heretical naturalness] ... a kind of "let-alone policy" or sloppiness... For a plant or stone to be natural is no problem. But for us there is some problem, indeed a big problem. To be natural is something we must work on.

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A good person is the bad person's teacher. A bad person is the good person's task.

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When the people of the world all know beauty as beauty, There arises the recognition of ugliness. When they all know the good as good, There arises the recognition of evil.

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If you are at peace, you are living in the present.

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Things flourish, then each returns to its root. Returning to the root is called stillness: Stillness is called return to life, return to life is called the constant; knowing the constant is called enlightenment.

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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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Fame of self: Which matters more? Self or wealth: Which is more precious? Gain or loss: Which is more painful?

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I let go of all desire for the common good, and the good becomes as common as the grass.

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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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True power is stillness within motion.

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There is one appointed supreme executioner. Truly, trying to take the place of the supreme executioner is like trying to carve wood like a master carpenter. Of those who try to carve wood like a master carpenter, there are few who do not injure their hands.

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Governing a large state is like boiling a small fish.

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He who possess virtue in abundance may be compared to an infant.

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Other people have more than they need, I alone seem wanting.

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When his (the good ruler's) task is accomplished and his work done, The people all say, "It happened to us naturally.

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Empty your mind of all thoughts.

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The wise man knows without traveling.

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. . . learn to value what is important today in the subtle realm rather than what appears desirable tomorrow in the worldly realm.

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The more weapons of violence, the more misery to mankind. The triumph of violence ends in a festival of mourning.

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Pounding an edge to sharpness will not make it last.

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