What is nearer to you,
your name or your person?
Which is more precious,
Your person or your wealth?
Which is the greater evil,
to gain or to lose?
great devotion requires great sacrifice.
Great wealth implies great loss.
One who is conent can never be ruined.
One who stands still will never meet danger.
These are the ones who endure.
2007-11-21 20:20:37 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Dan Dempsey,
From the Tao Te Ching.
Good read. Not long either, states its points, tells you to interupt them for yourself in the very first paragraph of the thing too, and then stops. Maybe 8 pages long.....
2007-11-21 20:29:49 · update #1
It doesn't sound like it's even from the Bible.
For your information, there are thousands of texts written by the ancients in the Orient that bear words stronger than those in the Bible by leaps and bounds - and get this: every question incites deep thought, as God isn't the collectively penultimate answer.
EDIT: Ah, great, I thought I could recognize the words of Laozi anywhere, but I fell short. I'm quite ashamed of myself, really. Brilliant words, and I enjoy the fact that you're bringing wisdom from the East to this section. There certainly isn't enough of it.
2007-11-21 20:30:06 · answer #1 · answered by Kemp the Mad African 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Ecclesiastes
2007-11-22 04:25:48 · answer #2 · answered by Steel Rain 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sounds like it means that what we need is all what we already have within us.
EDIT:
Just curious, but where is this passage from?
EDIT:
OK, neat. I may have to buy me a copy if I can find one.
2007-11-22 04:25:08 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
This just makes me think of how a devoted and enthusiastic Taoist you really are....
Thumbs up!!!
2007-11-24 01:18:05 · answer #4 · answered by kim 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they make me think of this
one who grows in love is like a flower in full bloom
One who grows in hate is like a rose that withers away
One who grows in ignorance washes away
One who grows in wisdom is like a tree strong and free
so be onto love and wisdom and you shall be strong
and in full bloom and full of life
Edit:
I wrote this one my self
2007-11-22 04:38:29 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
sounds like proverbs.
i wasn't implying that it was the book of proverbs... i meant a proverb in the general sense.
2007-11-22 04:27:36 · answer #6 · answered by Pulling Down Strongholds 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Means nothing to me.
2007-11-22 04:41:38 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋