Develop the strength of a man, but live as gently as a woman
If you are at peace, you are living in the present.
If you wish to become a divine immortal angel, then restore the angelic qualities of your being through virtue and service. This is the only way to gain the attention of the immortals... These angelic teachers cannot be sought out; it is they who seek out the student. When you succeed in connecting your energy with the divine realm through high awareness and the practice of undiscriminating virtue, the transmission of the ultimate subtle truths will follow.
Throw away profit and greed, and there won't be any thieves.
The value of actions lies in their timing.
If there is to be peace in the world, There must be peace in the nations. If there is to be peace in the nations, There must be peace in the cities. If there is to be peace in the cities, There must be peace between neighbors. If there is to be peace between neighbors, There must be peace in the home. If there is to be peace in the home, There must be peace in the heart.
A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.
Loss is not as bad as wanting more.
When the student is ready the teacher will appear.
The more clever and cunning people are, the stranger the events will be.
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.
The usefulness of a pot comes from its emptiness.
Can you step back from your own mind and thus understand all things?
Those who are right do not argue. Those who argue are not right.
There is no greater crime than desire.
Rule your mind with serenity rather than with force and manipulation.
The master understands that the universe is forever out of control
How can one liberate the many? By first liberating his own being. He does this not by elevating himself, but by lowering himself. He lowers himself to that which is simple, modest, true; integrating it into himself, he becomes a master of simplicity, modesty, truth.
To know one's ignorance is the best part of knowledge.
Softness triumphs over hardness, feebleness over strength. What is more malleable is always superior over that which is immoveable. This is the principle of controlling things by going along with them, of mastery through adaptation.
If you worry more for others' beliefs, then you will be their slave.
Yielding is the way of the Tao.
Use the light that is in you to recover your natural clearness of sight
. . . integral wisdom involves a direct participation in every moment: the observer and the observed are dissolved in the light of pure awareness, and no mental concepts or attitudes are present to dim that light.
True words aren't eloquent; eloquent words aren't true. Wise men don't need to prove their point; men who need to prove their point aren't wise. The Master has no possessions. The more he does for others, the happier he is. The more he gives to others, the wealthier he is. The Tao nourishes by not forcing. By not dominating, the Master leads.
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