All that is limited by form, semblance, sound, color is called object. Among them all, man alone is more than an object. Though, like objects, he has form and semblance, He is not limited to form. He is more. He can attain to formlessness. When he is beyond form and semblance, beyond this and that, where is the comparison with another object? Where is the conflict? What can stand in his way? He will rest in his eternal place which is no-place. He will be hidden in his own unfathomable secret. His nature sinks to its root in the One. His vitality, his power hide in secret Tao.


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To act, bu...
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The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
LAO-TZU
He who tip-toes cannot stand; he who strides cannot walk.
LAO-TZU
Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.
LAO-TZU
Don't think you can attain total awareness and whole enlightenment without proper discipline and pra...
LAO-TZU
Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.
LAO-TZU
The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and dest...
SUN-TZU
People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as ca...
LAO-TZU
A tree trunk the size of a man grows from a blade as thin as a hair. A tower nine stories high is bu...
LAO-TZU
Of the best rulers, The people only know that they exist; the next best they love and praise the nex...
LAO-TZU
Favor and disgrace are like fear. Favor is in a higher place, and disgrace in a lower place. When yo...
LAO-TZU
To see things in the seed is genius.
LAO-TZU
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving ...
LAO-TZU
He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.
LAO-TZU
A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
LAO-TZU
In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is h...
LAO-TZU
Water flows humbly to the lowest level.
Nothing is weaker than water,
Yet for overcoming what ...
LAO-TZU
The best man is like water.
Water is good; it benefits all things and does not compete with them....
LAO-TZU
When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truc...
SUN-TZU
There is no calamity greater than lavish desires. There is no greater guilt than discontentment. And...
LAO-TZU
A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.
LAO-TZU
The journey of a thousand miles
starts from beneath your feet.

NOTE: Other translation...
LAO-TZU
By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try...
LAO-TZU
Do not swallow bait offered by the enemy. Do not interfere with an army that is returning home.
SUN TZU
O divine art of subtlety and secrecy! Through you we learn to be invisible, through you inaudible an...
SUN-TZU
Let there be a small country with few people . . .
Though neighboring communities overlook one an...
LAO-TZU
So there are five ways of knowing who will win. Those who know when to fight and when not to fight a...
SUN TZU
The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only tho...
SUN-TZU
A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
LAO TZU
The proximity of an army causes prices to go up; and high prices cause people's substance to be drai...
SUN TZU
Therefore a victorious army first wins and then seeks battle; a defeated army first battles and then...
SUN TZU
Learn to lead in a nourishing manner. Learn to lead without being possessive. Learn to be helpful ...
LAO TZU
The art of giving orders is not to try to rectify the minor blunders and not to be swayed by petty d...
SUN TZU
Marriage is three parts love and seven parts forgiveness of sins.
LAO TZU
Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast any...
LAO TZU
Nature is not human hearted.
LAO-TZU
Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the ...
LAO TZU
By accident of fortune a man may rule the world for a time, but by virtue of love he may rule the wo...
LAO TZU
The longest journey a man must take is the eighteen inches from his head to his heart
LAO TZU
Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.
LAO TZU
The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives t...
LAO TZU