Lao Tzu
Thirty spokesShare one hub.Make the nothing therein appropriate, and you will have the use of the cart.
Mastering others is strength. Mastering oneself makes you fearless.
...the mind is just as immeasurable as the vast universe. An integral being settles his mind just as the vast universe settles itself. He unites his mind with the unnameable Subtle Origin of the multi-universe in which there is no past, present or future. This is how an integral being deals with his mind.
The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao. The name that can be named is not the eternal name. The nameless is the beginning of heaven and earth. The named is the mother of ten thousand things. Ever desireless, one can see the mystery. Ever desiring, one can see the manifestations. These two spring from the same source but differ in name; this appears as darkness. Darkness within darkness. The gate to all mystery.
Time is a created thing. To say 'I don't have time,' is like saying, 'I don't want to.
In pursuit of knowledge, every day something is acquired. In pursuit of wisdom, every day something is dropped.
Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.
To know that you do not know is the best.To think you know when you do not is a disease.Recognizing this disease as a disease is to be free of it.
I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any.
Ist eine Lehre zur Satzung erstarrt, hat sie geendet.
A man who knows how little he knows is well, a man who knows how much he knows is sick. If, when you see the symptoms, you can tell, Your cure is quick.A sound man knows that sickness makes him sick and before he catches it his cure is quick.
The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
The past has no power to stop youfrom being present now.Only your grievance aboutthe past can do that.What is grievance?The baggage of oldthought and emotion.
The heart that gives, gathers.
A good traveler leaves no tracks. Good speech lacks fault-finding.
He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.
He who acts, spoils; he who grasps, lets slip.
Water is the softest thing, yet it can penetrate mountains and earth. This shows clearly the principle ofsoftness overcoming hardness.
If lightning is the anger of the gods, then the gods are concerned mostly about trees.
Klar sieht, wer von ferne sieht, nebelhaft, wer Anteil nimmt.
