Don't think you can attain total awareness and whole enlightenment without proper discipline and practice. This is egomania. Appropriate rituals channel your emotions and life energy toward the light. Without the discipline to practice them, you will tumble constantly backward…

Quote by Lao Tzu

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Be the chief but never the lord.

Be the chief but never the lord.

Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks...

Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks...

A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

To perceive things in the germ is intelligence.

To perceive things in the germ is intelligence.

Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.

Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.

Such is the essential mystery.

Such is the essential mystery.

I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do...

I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do...

From caring comes courage

From caring comes courage

Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they...

Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they...

Because of deep love, one is courageous. Because of frugality, one is generous. Because of...

Because of deep love, one is courageous. Because of frugality, one is generous. Because of...

Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge.

Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge.

He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier...

He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier...

Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will...

Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will...

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done,...

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done,...

Kindness in giving creates love.

Kindness in giving creates love.

Pride attaches undue importance to the superiority of one's status in the eyes of others;...

Pride attaches undue importance to the superiority of one's status in the eyes of others;...

All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in...

All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in...

Be Content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize...

Be Content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize...

From wonder into wonder existence opens.

From wonder into wonder existence opens.