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Weapons are instruments of fear; they are not a wise man's tools. He uses them only when he has no choice.
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Because clarity and enlightenment are within your own nature, they are regained without moving an inch.
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Why are the people rebellious? Because the rulers interfere too much. Therefore they are rebellious.
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Live simply and virtuously, true to your nature, drawing no line between what is spiritual and what is not.
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.. These are notions of the mind, which is like a knife, always chipping away at the Tao, trying to render it graspable and manageable. But that which is beyond form is ungraspable, and that which is beyond knowing is unmanageable. There is, however, this consolation: She who lets go of the knife will find the Tao at her fingertips.
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Purity and stillness give the correct law to all under heaven.
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The first practice is the practice of undiscriminating virtue: take care of those who are deserving; also, and equally, take care of those who are not. When you extend your virtue in all directions without discriminating, you feet are firmly planted on the path that returns to the Tao.
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The wise student hears of the Tao and practices it diligently. The average student hears of the Tao and gives it thought now and again.
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Who can enjoy enlightenment and remain indifferent to suffering in the world? This is not in keeping with the Way. Only those who increase their service along with their understanding can be called men and women of Tao.
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In the Way of Heaven, there is no partiality of love; it is always on the side of the good man.
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What is a good man? A teacher of a bad man. What is a bad man? A good man's charge?
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If you go searching for the Great Creator, you will come back empty-handed. The source of the universe is ultimately unknowable, a great invisible river flowing forever through a vast and fertile valley. Silent and uncreated, it creates all things.
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The named was born from the unnamed... all being flows from non-being... the describable world emanates from an indescribable source.
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Remember: if you can cease all restless activity, your integral nature will appear.
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Those who make their living by collecting taxes cause the people to starve; when the people starve, the tax collectors, having no one to tax, starve also
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I am good to people who are good. I am also good to people who are not good. Because Virtue is goodness.
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Act non-action; undertake no undertaking; taste the tasteless.
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Nature's way is simple and easy, but men prefer the intricate and artificial.
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With that gentleness I can be bold; with that economy I can be liberal; shrinking from taking precedence of others, I can become a vessel of the highest honour.
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The truly great man dwells on what is real and not what is on the surface.
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Ever desireless, one can see the mystery. Ever desiring, one can see the manifestations. These two spring from the same source but differ in name; this appears as darkness. Darkness within darkness. The gate to all mystery.
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Take care of what is difficult while it is still easy, and deal with what will become big while it is yet small.
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Countless words
count less
than the silent balance
between yin and yang
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What man has more than enough and gives it to the world? Only the man of Tao.
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Approach the universe with Tao, And evil will have no power. Not that evil is not powerful, But its power will not be used to harm others.
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Lao Tzu
Born:
604 BC
Died:
531 BC
(aged 73)
Bio:
Laozi was an ancient Chinese philosopher and writer. He is known as the reputed author of the Tao Te Ching and the founder of philosophical Taoism, and as a deity in religious Taoism and traditional Chinese religions.
Known for:
Tao Te Ching
The Way and Its Power
Tao: The Way
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