"Quiet your mind and stop judging and..." - Quote by Lao Tzu

“When the palace is magnificent, the fields are filled with weeds, and the granaries are empty.”

“He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.”

“When superior people hear of the Way, they carry it out with diligence. When middling people hear of the Way, it sometimes seems to be there, sometimes not. When lesser people hear of the Way, they ridicule it greatly. If they didn't laugh at it, it wouldn't be the Way.”

“In the mountain, stillness surges up to explore its own height In the lake, movement stands still to contemplate its own depth.”

“The teaching arises out of the stillness. But when I'm alone, there's only the stillness, and that is my favorite place.”

“Every time you create a gap in the stream of mind, the light of your consciousness grows stronger”

“Our minds thus grow in spots; and like grease-spots, the spots spread. But we let them spread as little as possible: we keep unaltered as much of our old knowledge, as many of our old prejudices and beliefs, as we can. We patch and tinker more than we renew. The novelty soaks in; it stains the ancient mass; but it is also tinged by what absorbs it.”

“Great distance in either time or space has wonderful power to lull and render quiescent the human mind.”

“A man can wear out a particular part of his mind by continually using and tiring it, just in the same way he can wear out the elbows of his coat.”