Lao Tzu
Quotes
A legendary Chinese philosopher, credited with founding Taoism. His teachings, centered around the Tao Te Ching, advocate for living in harmony with the Tao, the universal flow of the universe. Emphasizing simplicity, humility, and non-action, his philosophy encourages individuals to align with the natural order, cultivating peace, balance, and compassion in both personal life and society. His wisdom continues to resonate with seekers of spiritual balance.
Lao Tzu
Quotes
A legendary Chinese philosopher, credited with founding Taoism. His teachings, centered around the Tao Te Ching, advocate for living in harmony with the Tao, the universal flow of the universe. Emphasizing simplicity, humility, and non-action, his philosophy encourages individuals to align with the natural order, cultivating peace, balance, and compassion in both personal life and society. His wisdom continues to resonate with seekers of spiritual balance.
Do not look only at yourself, and you will see much. Do not justify yourself, and you will be distinguished. Do not brag, and you will have merit. Do not be prideful, and your work will endure.
Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.
The reason Heaven and Earth are everlasting is because they do not exist for themselves
The reason I have great misfortune is that I have the self. If I have no self - What misfortune do I have?
An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.
Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge.
The True Person avoids extremes, self-indulgence, and extravagance.
Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
Act without contrivance and nothing will be beyond control.
Those who praise themselves have no merit, those who boast do not last.
Be Content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.
He who does not trust enough, will not be trusted.
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.
He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself has true strength.
Achieving without arrogance, raising without dominion, this is called mystic virtue.
To see things in the seed, that is genius.
Those who know contentment are wealthy.
There is no greater offence than harbouring desires. There is no greater disaster than discontent. There is no greater misfortune than wanting more.
If you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present.
The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself.
If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.
People in their handling of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.
