Quotes by Lao Tzu

Knowing constancy, the mind is open.
With an open mind, you will be openhearted.
Being openhearted you will act royally.
Being royal, you will attain the divine.
Being divine, you will be at one with the Tao.
Being at one with the Tao is eternal.
Though the body dies, the Tao will never pass away.

" The Master does not seek fulfillment. In not seeking or expecting, she is present & can welcome all things".

"Those who have knowledge, don't predict.  Those who predict, don't have knowledge."

"Those who have knowledge, don't predict.  Those who predict, don't have knowledge."

The more prohibitions you have, the less virtuous people will be. Try to make people moral, and you lay the groundwork for vice.

Contentment is the greatest treasure.

Those who know, do not speak. Those who speak, do not know.

"Those who know don't talk.
Those who talk don't know."

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom; mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.

A good athlete can enter a state of body-awareness in which the right stroke or the right movement happens by itself, effortlessly, without any interference of the conscious will. This is a paradigm for non-action: the purest and most effective form of action. The game plays the game; the poem writes the poem; we can't tell the dancer from the dance. It happens when we trust the intelligence of the universe in the same way that an athlete or a dancer trusts the superior intelligence of the body.