{"id":920,"date":"2021-12-12T12:07:31","date_gmt":"2021-12-12T11:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/how-to-live.de\/?p=920"},"modified":"2022-07-14T15:44:16","modified_gmt":"2022-07-14T13:44:16","slug":"wenn-ich-loslasse-laotse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/how-to-live.de\/en\/when-i-let-go-laotse\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWhen I Let Go...\u201d - Lao Tzu About One\u2019s Own Potential"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"When I let go of what I am, I become what I could be.
When I let go of what I have, I get what I need.\"<\/p>- Lao Tzu \/ Laozi \/ Lau Tzu <\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

What this quote means?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If I already have both hands full of something, I can't pick up anything new. It is the same with our mind, or with our character. If I cling too tightly to my existing character traits, I have little chance of developing further.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lao Tzu describes this phenomenon excellently in his quotation. For as long as I do not let go of what I am, I cannot become what I could be. As long as I don't let go of what I have, I can't get what I need. However, we as humans tend to hold on to things even when they are not good for us. Once they have been in our possession for a while, we tend to identify with those very things and think of them as our own, which makes it all the more difficult to let them go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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If we hold on to something too tightly, we can easily break it or hurt ourselves<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

As long as I am something, I cannot be anything else. Whether what I could be is better than what I am at present, I do not know. However, if I never try it, I will never know. Possibly it is not quite so black either or<\/span> White, but perhaps some qualities that I currently have and some qualities that I could have are gone from the ideal - so more of a picture of black and<\/span> White. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, I will never be able to know that unless I let go of what I am, unless I let go of what I have. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nature is a constantly changing and evolving energy, something like standstill is hardly to be found. Whether from fish to mammal, from conifer to deciduous tree, or from an uninhabitable rock to a habitable planet. Just as there is no permanence in nature, we should not believe that we can maintain a permanence within ourselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is also something adventurous in it, to become what you could be<\/strong>something mysterious and encouraging.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And that's what I think you should discover. What are you waiting for? There is an infinite amount to discover. Or to miss...<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"When I let go of what I am, I become what I could be.When I let go of what I have, I get what I need.\" - Lao Tzu \/ Laozi \/ Lau Tzu What does this quote mean? If I already have both hands full of anything, I can't pick up anything new. It is the same with our...<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":922,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13,22],"tags":[23,24,65,293],"class_list":["post-920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-philosophie","category-quotes","tag-lao-tzu","tag-laotse","tag-loaslassen","tag-taoism"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t