Quotes by Lao Tzu

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

The ego is a monkey catapulting through the jungle:
Totally fascinated by the realm of the senses,
it swings from one desire to the next,
one conflict to the next,
one self-centered idea to the next.
If you threaten it, it actually fears for its life.

Let this monkey go.
Let the senses go. Let desires go.
Let conflicts go.
Let ideas go.
Let the fiction of life and death go.
Just remain in the center, watching.

And then forget that you are there.

Not-knowing is true knowledge.
Presuming to know is a disease
First realize that you are sick;
then you can move toward health

The Master is her own physician
She has healed herself of all knowing
Thus she is truly whole

" 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."