"In stillness the muddied water returns to..." - Quote by Lao Tzu
In stillness the muddied water returns to clarity.
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“The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth.”
“The Master observes the world, but trusts his inner vision. He allows things to come and go. His heart is as open as the sky.”
“In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.”
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“If you peel back the layers of your life-the frenzy, the noise-stillness is waiting. That stillness is you.”
“The seed of mystery lies in muddy water. How can I perceive this mystery? Water becomes clear through stillness. How can I become still? By flowing with the stream.”
“Don't judge or analyze what you observe. Watch the thought, feel the emotion, observe the reaction. Don't make a personal problem out of them. You will then feel something more powerful than any of those things that you observe: the still, observing presence itself behind the content of your mind, the silent watcher.”
More on Clarity
“. . . Then anyone who leaves behind him a written manual, and likewise anyone who receives it, in the belief that such writing will be clear and certain, must be exceedingly simple-minded. . . .”
“It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.”
“My tongue is prone to lose the way,Not so my pen, for in a letterWe have not better things to say,But surely put them better.”