If you can let go of (the Tao) with your mind and surround it with your heart, it will live inside you forever.
Interpretation
True understanding comes from combining intellectual thought with emotional connection.
In this quote by Laozi, the essence of true wisdom is highlighted, suggesting that intellectual comprehension alone is insufficient. To truly embody an idea, particularly the concept of the Tao, one must not only think about it but also feel it deeply with the heart, which leads to a lasting internalization of its principles and truths.
In practice
In a discussion about mindfulness, one could use this quote to emphasize the importance of emotional engagement in understanding life.
If you understand others you are smart._x000D_ If you understand yourself you are illuminated._x000D_ If you overcome others you are powerful._x000D_ If you overcome yourself you have strength._x000D_ If you know how to be satisfied you are rich._x000D_ If you can act with vigor, you have a will._x000D_ If you don't lose your objectives you can be long-lasting._x000D_ If you die without loss, you are eternal.
When nothing is done, nothing is left undone.
A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.
Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is enlightenment.
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.
Rule your mind with serenity rather than with force and manipulation.
May both of them [Saint John XXIII and Saint John Paul II] teach us not to be scandalized by the wounds of Christ and to enter ever more deeply into the mystery of divine mercy, which always hopes and always forgives, because it always loves.
Nuclear weapons offer us nothing but a balance of terror, and a balance of terror is still terror.
I think part of picking where you live in New York is accepting who you are. Really looking at yourself and going, 'Yeah, I'm not cool enough for the West Village.'
Small acts of decency ripple in ways we could never imagine.
The modern view of criminal justice, broadly, is that public concern with morality or expediency decrees expiation for the violation of a norm; this concern finds expression in the infliction of punishment on the evil doer by agents of the state, the evil doer, however, enjoying the protection of a regular procedure.
The simplest thought, like the concept of the number one, has an elaborate logical underpinning.
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