Category Lao Tzu

Lao Tzu says: “Surrender yourself humbly; then you can be trusted to care for all things. Do not be concerned with loss or gain. Love the world as your own Self; then you can truly care for all things.”

Lao Tzu says: “Simply see that you are at the center of the universe, and accept all things and beings as parts of your infinite body. When you perceive that an act done to another is done to yourself, you…

Lao Tzu says: “Silence is a source of great strength.”

Lao Tzu says: “Shape clay into a vessel; It is the space within that makes it useful. Cut doors and windows for a room; It is the holes which make it useful. Therefore benefit comes from what is there; Usefulness…

Lao Tzu says: “One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him.”

Lao Tzu says: “Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.”

Lao Tzu says: “Men are born soft and supple; dead they are stiff and hard. Plants are born tender and pliant; dead, they are brittle and dry. Thus whoever is stiff and inflexible is a disciple of death. Whoever is…

Lao Tzu says: “Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.”

Lao Tzu says: “Man’s enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.”

Lao Tzu says: “Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.”