The real key to health and happiness and success is self knowledge.
Silence is a source of great strenght.
The superior leader keeps informed about everything but interferes hardly at all.
You will understand a great truth when you get to realize that what you do to others, you are doing to yourself.
The world’s big things only can be done by paying attention to their humble beginnings.
Instead of being afraid of death, we should try to awake to life; and the only death we should escape from is to forget the presence of God into us.
The liberation cannot be reached but by means of the perception of the identity of the individual spirit with the universal spirit.
If people do not revere the Law of Nature It will adversely affect them. If they accept It with knowledge and reverence, It will accommodate them with balance and harmony.
Be content with an ordinary life.
Water does not force its way.
The best form of leadership is to be conscious of the leadership potential with the followers and to let them unleash this potential in a spontaneous way. When a great leader accomplishes this task with effortless ease, the followers say, “We did it ourselves.”
The living are soft and yielding; the dead are rigid and stiff. Living plants are flexible and tender; the dead are brittle and dry.
The master accomplishes more and more by doing less and less until finally he accomplishes everything by doing nothing.
As long as we have hope, we have direction, the energy to move, and the map to move by. We have a hundred alternatives, a thousand paths and an infinity of dreams. Hopeful, we are halfway to where we want to go; hopeless, we are lost forever.
Clay is molded to form a cup, But it is on its non-being that the utility of the cup depends. Doors and windows are cut out to make a room, But it is on its non-being that the utility of the room depends. Therefore turn being into advantage, and turn non-being into utility.
Tao in the world is like a river flowing home to the sea.
Truly, the greatest gift you have to give is that of your own self-transformation.
One who believes in himself has no need to convince others.
A whale out of water is over-run by ants.
A good runner leaves no footprints.