Lao Tzu Quotes

He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.

He who knows himself is enlightened.

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

I want to learn from myself, want to be my student, want to get to know myself, the secret of Siddhartha.

Without going out of my door, I can know all things on earth. Without looking out of my window I could know the ways of heaven. The farther one travels, The less one knows, the less one really knows.

Books simply help you to see what is already within your self. That's what enlightenment is all about.

We must remember that knowledge of one’s own deep nature is also simultaneously knowledge of human nature in general.

The Secret is within you.

If you cannot find the truth within yourself, where else do you expect to find it?

The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection.

Nothing said to us, nothing we can learn from others, reaches us so deep as that which we find in ourselves.

Everyone has the answers.

Know thyself.

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.

We have what we seek, it is there all the time, and if we give it time, it will make itself known to us.

What you are looking for is within you

I shall no longer be instructed by the Yoga Veda or the Aharva Veda, or the ascetics, or any other doctrine whatsoever. I shall learn from myself, be a pupil of myself; I shall get to know myself, the mystery of Siddhartha." He looked around as if he were seeing the world for the first time.

Truth is not to be found outside. No teacher, no scripture can give it to you. It is inside you and if you wish to attain it, seek your own company. Be with yourself.

I once read that people who study others are wise but those who study themselves are enlightened.

The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practised, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. . . . God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.

Your awareness has its source in unity. Instead of seeking outside yourself, go to the source to realize who you are.

Without opening your door, you can open your heart to the world. Without looking out your window, you can see the essence of the Tao. The more you know, the less you understand. The Master arrives without leaving, sees the light without looking, achieves without doing a thing.

That is the first thing to learn - not to seek. When you seek you are really only window-shopping. The question of whether or not there is a God or truth or reality, or whatever you like to call it, can never be answered by books, by priests, philosophers or saviours. Nobody and nothing can answer the question but you yourself and that is why you must know yourself. Immaturity lies only in total ignorance of self. To understand yourself is the beginning of wisdom.

Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself.