Quotes from Laozi

If there is to be peace in the home, There must be peace in the heart.

I am wearied, as if I lacked a home to go to.

Rituals are the end of fidelity and honesty, and the beginning of confusion.

Knowing honor, but clinging to disgrace, you become the valley of the world.

Because he (the Sage) demands no honor, he will never be dishonored.

Know honor, Yet keep humility. Be the valley of the universe! Being the valley of the universe, Ever true and resourceful, Return to the state of the uncarved block.

Good words shall gain you honor in the marketplace, but good deeds shall gain you friends among men.

The sage honors his part of the settlement, but does not exact his due from others.

Hope and fear are both phantoms that arise from thinking of the self. When we don't see the self as self, what do we have to fear?

We are all capable of much more than we think we are.

When the hares have all been caught, the hunting dogs are cooked.

Racing through the field and hunting make the mind wild.

Racing and hunting excite man's heart to madness.

Yet mystery and imagination arise from the same source. This source is called darkness ... Darkness within darkness, the gateway to all understanding.

Because one believes in oneself, one doesn't try to convince. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn't need others' approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her.

Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.

Be still. Stillness reveals the secrets of eternity

Face the simple fact before it comes involved. Solve the small problem before it becomes big.

Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.

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.

Become totally empty Quiet the restlessness of the mind Only then will you witness everything unfolding from emptiness

He who knows himself is enlightened.

The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.

How do I know about the world? By what is within me.