Quotes on Way

Weapons are ominous tools. They are abhorred by all creatures. Anyone who follows the Way shuns them.

When the world is ruled according to the Way, the ghosts lose their power. The ghosts do not really lose their power, but it is not used to harm people.

Yielding is the manner of the Way.

When the Way is lost there is virtue. When virtue is lost there is benevolence. When benevolence is lost there is righteousness. When righteousness is lost there are rituals.

Heaven's Way gives no favors. It always remains with good people.

Who has excess and supplies the world? Only the one who follows the Way.

Some have lavish garments, carry sharp swords, and feast on food and drink. They possess more than they can spend. This is called the vanity of robbers. It is certainly not the Way.

Supreme good is like water. Water greatly benefits all things, without conflict. It flows through places that people loathe. Thereby it is close to the Way.

Without looking through the window, you can see Heaven's Way.

He who holds on to the Way seeks no excess. Since he lacks excess, he can grow old in no need to be renewed.

Filling all the way to the brim is not as good as halting in time.

The superior student listens to the Way and follows it closely. The average student listens to the Way and follows some and some not. The lesser student listens to the Way and laughs out loud. If there were no laughter it would not be the Way.

Of all things, none does not revere the Way and honor virtue. Reverence of the Way and honoring virtue were not demanded of them, but it is in their nature.

Things exalted then decay. This is going against the Way. What goes against the Way meets an early end.

The great Way is very straight, but people prefer to deviate.

If I have just an ounce of sense, I follow the great Way, and fear only to stray from it.

The greatest virtue is to follow the Way utterly.

Hold on to the ancient Way to master the present, and to learn the distant beginning.

The progress of the Way seems retreating.

Words spoken about the Way have no taste. When looked at, there's not enough to see. When listened to, there's not enough to hear. When used, it is never exhausted.

The Way is eternal. Until your last day, you are free from peril.