Laozi quotes - page 7

For all things difficult to acquire, the intelligent man works with perseverance. (Laozi)
... Intelligence is not the same thing as wisdom. View quote
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A good manager is best when people barely know that he exists. Not so good when people obey and acclaim him. Worse when they despise him. View quote
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... 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. View quote
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Going forward seems like retreat ... View quote
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If you attach yourself to gross energies loving this person, hating that clan, rejecting one experience or habitually indulging in another then you will lead a series of heavy, attached lives. This can go on for a very long and tedious time. View quote
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Music in the soul can be heard by the universe. View quote
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The new life created by the final integration is self-aware yet without ego, capable of inhabiting a body yet not attached to it, and guided by wisdom rather than emotion. Whole and virtuous, it can never die. View quote
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The cords of passion and desire weave a binding net around you. Worldly confrontation makes you stiff and inflexible. The trap of duality is tenacious. Bound, rigid, and trapped, you cannot experience liberation. View quote
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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. View quote
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Acting without design, occupying oneself without making a business of it, finding the great in what is small and the many in the few, repaying injury with kindness, effecting difficult things while they are easy, and managing great things in their beginnings this is the method of Tao. (Laozi)
Some help others in order to receive blessings and admiration. This is simply meaningless. Some cultivate themselves in part to serve others, in part to serve their own pride. They will understand, at best, half of the truth. But those who improve themselves for the sake of the world to these, the whole truth of the universe will be revealed. View quote
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Understand this if nothing else spiritual freedom and oneness with the Tao are not randomly bestowed gifts, but the rewards of conscious self-transformation and self-evolution. View quote
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Remember if you can cease all restless activity, your integral nature will appear. View quote
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Do not imagine that an integral being has the ambition of enlightening the unaware or raising worldly people to the divine realm. To her, there is no self and other, and hence no one to be raised no heaven and hell, and hence no destination. View quote
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I confess that there is nothing to teach no religion, no science, no body of information which will lead your mind back to the Tao. Today I speak in this fashion, tomorrow in another, but always the Integral Way is beyond words and beyond mind. View quote
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If people are not afraid of dying, why threaten them with death? View quote
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By following this simple path, you become extraordinary, unfathomable, a being of profound cosmic subtlety. You outlive time and space by realizing the subtle truth of the universe. View quote
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Pain and happiness are simply conditions of the ego. Forget the ego. View quote
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The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world. Through this I know the advantage of taking no action. View quote
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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. (Laozi)
The sense organs, which are limited in scope and ability, randomly gather information. This partial information is arranged into judgments, which are based on previous judgments, which are usually based on someone else's foolish ideas. These false concepts and ideas are then stored in a highly selective memory system. View quote
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Does one scent appeal more than another Do you prefer this flavor, or that feeling Is your practice sacred and your work profane Then your mind is separated from itself, from oneness, from the Tao. View quote
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Can you let go of words and ideas, attitudes and expectations If so, then the Tao will loom into view. View quote
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The fourth (of the four cardinal virtues) is supportiveness this manifests as service to others without expectation of reward. (Paraphrased Such service is not a mere conforming to some external rule of behavior, but instead a manifestation of your original nature). View quote
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