12 Quotes by Tao Te Ching

The heart that gives, gathers.

Your conversations help create your world. Speak of delight, not dissatisfaction. Speak of hope, not despair. Let your words bind up wounds, not cause them.

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 It can’t be approached or withdrawn from, benefited or harmed, honored or brought into disgrace.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.

Water gives life to the ten thousand things and does not strive. It flows in places men reject and so is like the Tao.

if you want to become straight, first let yourself become twisted. If you want to become full, first let yourself become empty. If you want to become new, first let yourself become old. Those who desires are few get them, those whose desires are great go astray.

When the student is ready the teacher will appear. When the student is truly ready... The teacher will Disappear.

He does not make himself seen,therefore he is bright;he does not deem himself to be right,therefore he is illustrious;he does not brag,therefore he has merit;he does not boast,therefore he lasts long.It is only because he does not contendthat no one in the world contends with him.(Daode jing, 22, part.)

When the student is ready, the teacher appears.

A good traveler leaves no track.