Showing posts with label Lao Tzu. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lao Tzu. Show all posts

Thursday, 29 October 2015

Lao Tzu 2

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

To attain knowledge, add things everyday. To attain wisdom, remove things every day.

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

By letting go it all gets done.

Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.

To a mind that is still the whole universe surrenders.

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

Muddy water, let stand, becomes clear.

There is no greater danger than underestimating your opponent.

The Way to do is to be.

The best fighter is never angry.

Give evil nothing to oppose and it will disappear by itself.

Those who flow as life flows know they need no other  force.

Act without expectation.

He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

Saturday, 17 October 2015

Lao Tzu 1

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

Knowing others is intelligence;knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.If you realize that you have enough, you are truly rich.

A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.

Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know.

When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everyone will respect you.

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

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

Time is a created thing. To say 'I don't have time,' is like saying, 'I don't want to.

The best fighter is never angry.

Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.

Stop thinking, and end your problems.

Act without expectation.

Thursday, 15 October 2015

Tao Te Ching

Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know.

When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everyone will respect you.

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

A man with outward courage dares to die; a man with inner courage dares to live.

The flame that burns Twice as bright burns half as long.

If you try to change it, you will ruin it. Try to hold it, and you will lose it.

When nothing is done, nothing is left undone.

Success is as dangerous as failure.Hope is as hollow as fear.

When goodness is lost there is morality.

What is firmly rooted cannot be pulled out.

If good happens, good; if bad happens, good.

The highest excellence is like (that of) water.

The farther that one goes out (from himself), the less he knows.

Simplicity without a name Is free from all external aim.

Be simply yourself and don't compare or compete