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“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 from what is not there.”

Inspirational Space Rooms Cutting Doors Shapes Benefits Window Holes Clay Vessel Usefulness Tao Te Ching Leadership Tao Te Ching Tao Ching

Author:Laozi

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

Inspirational Dangerous Hollow Tao Te Ching Leadership Tao Ching

Author:Laozi

“In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple.”

Thinking Simple Taoism Tao Governing Dwelling Tao Te Ching Tao Ching Book Of Tao Work Family

Author:Laozi

“If you want to become full, let yourself be empty.”

Ifs Want Empty Taoism Tao Te Ching Tao Ching

Author:Laozi

“If you want to be given everything, give everything up.”

Ifs Want Giving Given Taoism Tao Tao Te Ching Tao Ching Book Of Tao

Author:Laozi

“The Master's power is like this. He lets all things come and go effortlessly, without desire. He never expects results; thus he is never disappointed. He is never disappointed; thus his spirit never grows old.”

Spirit Desire Grows Results Masters All Things Taoism Disappointed Tao Comes And Goes Tao Te Ching Tao Ching Never Expect Book Of Tao

Author:Laozi

“The mark of a moderate man is freedom from his own ideas. Tolerant like the sky, all-pervading like sunlight, firm like a mountain, supple like a tree in the wind, he has no destination in view and makes use of anything life happens to bring his way.”

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Author:Laozi

“Those who know don't talk. Those who talk don't know. Close your mouth, block off your senses, blunt your sharpness, untie your knots, soften your glare, settle your dust. This is the primal identity. Be like the Tao. It can't be approached or withdrawn from, benefited or harmed, honored or brought into disgrace. It gives itself up continually. That is why it endures.”

Knows Giving Identity Mouths Endure Senses Block Dust Settling Taoism Honored Tao Disgrace Primal Knots Blunt Glare Tao Te Ching Leadership Tao Te Ching Tao Ching Sharpness

Author:Laozi

“When you are one with loss, the loss is experienced willingly.”

Loss Taoism Tao Ching

Book:道德经

Source: 道德经

“Stop trying to control. Let go of fixed plans and concepts, and the world will govern itself.”

World Trying Plans Letting Go Concepts Fixed Taoism Stop Trying Tao Te Ching Leadership Tao Ching

Author:Laozi

“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?”

Thinking Self Arise Taoism Tao Phantoms Hopes And Fears Tao Te Ching Leadership Tao Te Ching Tao Ching Book Of Tao

Author:Laozi

“The best leaders are those their people hardly know exist. The next best is a leader who is loved and praised. Next comes the one who is feared. The worst one is the leader that is despised ... The best leaders value their words, and use them sparingly. When they have accomplished their task, the people say, "Amazing! We did it, all by ourselves!”

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Author:Laozi

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

Ifs Happens Taoism Tao Te Ching Tao Ching Tao Wisdom

Author:Laozi

“...the more you talk of it, the less you understand.”

Taoism Tao Te Ching Leadership Tao Te Ching Tao Ching Book Of Tao Saints And Sinners

Book:The Tao Te Ching: Annotated Edition

Source: The Tao Te Ching: Annotated Edition

“The Tao is like a well; used but never used up.”

Wells Used Taoism Tao Tao Te Ching Leadership Tao Te Ching Tao Ching Book Of Tao

Author:Laozi

“Attending fully and becoming supple, Can you be as a newborn babe?”

Becoming Tao Babe Attending Newborn Tao Ching Supple

Book:道德经

Source: 道德经

“What is a good man? A teacher of a bad man. What is a bad man? A good man's charge?”

Men Teacher Good Man Tao Bad Man Tao Ching

Book:道德经

Source: 道德经

“A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants. A good scientist has freed himself of concepts and keeps his mind open to what is. Thus the Master is available to all people and doesn't reject anyone. He is ready to use all situations and doesn't waste anything. This is called embodying the light. What is a good man but a bad man's teacher? What is a bad man but a good man's job? If you don't understand this, you will get lost, however intelligent you are. It is the great secret.”

“The Tao is infinite, eternal. Why is it eternal? It was never born; thus it can never die. Why is it infinite? It has no desires for itself; thus it is present for all beings. The Master stays behind; that is why she is ahead. She is detached from all things; that is why she is one with them. Because she has let go of herself, she is perfectly fulfilled.”

Desire Dies Born Behinds Masters Letting Go Eternal All Things Infinite Fulfilled Tao Detached Tao Ching

Author:Laozi

“A great nation is like a great man:When he makes a mistake, he realizes it.Having realized it, he admits it.Having admitted it, he corrects it.He considers those who point out his faultsas his most benevolent teachers.He thinks of his enemyas the shadow that he himself casts.”

Thinking Men Nations Realizing Mistake Teacher Shadow Casts Great Men Tao Benevolent Great Nations Tao Te Ching Leadership Tao Te Ching Tao Ching Tao Wisdom

Author:Laozi

“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.”

Two Names Darkness Mystery Source Spring Manifestation Gates Tao Te Ching Leadership Tao Ching Darkness Within

Book:The Daodejing of Laozi

Source: The Daodejing of Laozi

“A foolish man is always doing, Yet much remains to be done.”

Men Done Action Remains Foolish Foolishness Tao Te Ching Leadership Tao Ching Foolish Man

Book:道德经

Source: 道德经

“If you want to know me, look inside your heart.”

Ifs Knows Want Looks Heart Know Me Tao Tao Te Ching Leadership Tao Te Ching Tao Ching Book Of Tao Tao Wisdom

Author:Laozi

“The hard and stiff will be broken. The soft and supple will prevail.”

Hard Broken Tao Ching Supple

Author:Laozi

“Observe how endings become beginnings.”

Tao Tao Te Ching Leadership Tao Te Ching Tao Ching Tao Wisdom

Author:Laozi

“The tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao The name that can be named is not the eternal Name. The unnamable is the eternally real. Naming is the origin of all particular things. Free from desire, you realize the mystery. Caught in desire, you see only the manifestations. Yet mystery and manifestations arise from the same source. This source is called darkness. Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.”

“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.”

Knows States Universe Humility Return Honor Block Valleys Resourceful Tao Te Ching Leadership Tao Ching

Book:道德经

Source: 道德经

“He who stands on tiptoe does not stand firm.”

Doe Firm Aspiration Stand Firm Tao Te Ching Leadership Tao Te Ching Tao Ching Tiptoes Tao Wisdom

Book:Tao Te Ching

Source: Tao Te Ching

“Empty your mind of all thoughts.”

Mind Loss Empty Tao Ching

Author:Laozi

“If you want to accord with the Tao, just do your job, then let go.”

Ifs Want Jobs Work Letting Go Tao Accord Tao Te Ching Leadership Tao Te Ching Tao Ching Tiptoes Tao Wisdom

Author:Laozi