3 December 2020 Lao-Tzu When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.
3 December 2020 Lao-Tzu Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.
3 December 2020 Lao-Tzu I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
3 December 2020 Lao-Tzu When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth it is the beginning of disorder.
3 December 2020 Lao-Tzu Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them – that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
3 December 2020 Lao-Tzu Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
3 December 2020 Lao-Tzu Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.
3 December 2020 Lao-Tzu Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those who are honest, and be also honest to those who are not honest. Thus honesty is attained.
3 December 2020 Lao-Tzu A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
3 December 2020 Lao-Tzu People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.
3 December 2020 Lao-Tzu If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.
