Nature, immune as to a sacrifice of straw dogs,/ Faces the passing of human generations./ The universe, like a bellows,/ Is always emptying, always full:/The more it yields, the more it/ holds.

About Laozi

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Laozi (variously spelled; , low-TSUH; Chinese: 老子; pinyin: Lǎozǐ) is the name traditionally given to an ancient Chinese philosopher, also identified as Li Er or Lao Dan, who is regarded as the author or originating teacher associated with the Tao Te Ching (Pinyin: Dào Dé Jīng), one of the foundational...

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To know how little one knows is to have genuine knowledge
Not to know how little one knows is to be deluded.
Only he who knows when he is deluded can free himself from such delusion. The intelligent man is not deluded, because he knows and accepts his ignorance as ignorance, and thereby has genuine knowledge.

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

love kindness giving confidence

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.

The more laws and order are made prominent,
The more thieves and robbers there will be.

History

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