Lao TzuThinkers

Anxiousness is to be living in the future, just as depression is to be living in the past and just as living at peace is living in the present.

Depression is to be living in the past, just as anxiousness is living in the future, and just as living at peace is living in the present.

Disappointment is what makes the spirit grow old. The master never expects results, thus is never disappointed, he is never disappointed, thus his spirit never grows old.

The Enemy is, for the master, a benevolent teacher who points out his faults and thus the shadow that he himself casts.

The Enemy there is no greater misfortune than to have.

Enlightenment (European) is knowing oneself, in contrast to wisdom which is knowing others.

Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth... it is the beginning of disorder.

Genius is seeing things in the seed.

Good - bad is reciprocal such that a good man is simply a bad man's teacher and a bad man is simply a good man's job.

A Good man is simply a bad man's teacher, a bad man, simply a good man's job.

Governance is ideally considered as the allowing of things to happen, the shaping of events as they come, the stepping out of the way and letting the tao speak for itself.

Governance is much like frying a small fish which is spoiled with too much poking.