Every day, mindful practice. When the mind is disciplined then the Way can work for us. Otherwise, all we do is talk… — Li Ching-Yuen Copy Share Image
Returning to the source is stillness, which is the way of nature. The way of nature is unchanging. Knowing constancy is insight. — Laozi Copy Share Image
Those who follow the Tao are of clear mind. They do not load their mind with anxieties and are flexible in their… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
The true "Way" cannot be used to look into the heart of another, and can only be appreciated and found on one's… — Henry Chang Copy Share Image
There are no greater adversaries than yin and yang, because nothing in Heaven or on Earth escapes them. But it is not… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
The Tao has no place for pettiness, and nor has Virtue. Pettiness is dangerous to Virtue; pettiness is dangerous to the Tao.… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
The true Way is sublime. It can't be expressed in language. Of what use are scriptures? But someone who sees his own… — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
He who stands on tiptoe is not steady. He who strides cannot maintain the pace. He who makes a show is not… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Can you dissolve your ego? Can you abandon the idea of self and other? Can you relinquish the notions of male and… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Those who know don't talk. Those who talk don't know. Close your mouth, block off your senses, blunt your sharpness, untie your… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Studying texts and stiff meditation can make you lose your Original Mind. A solitary tune by a fisherman, though, can be an… — Ikkyu Copy Share Image
“In the story of the Ugly Duckling, when did the Ugly Duckling stop feeling Ugly? When he realized he was a Swan.… — Benjamin Hoff Copy Share Image
Shankara commented on Krishna, on the Upanishads, on the Brahma Sutras. Ramanuja commented on the ancient enlightened people, Vallabha did the same.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The great Way is easy, yet people prefer the side paths. Be aware when things are out of balance. Stay centered within… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Since we have been out of balance so heavily towards the male, it is going to be the feminine energy which will… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
Everything has its own place and function. That applies to people, although many don't seem to realize it, stuck as they are… — Benjamin Hoff Copy Share Image
When the great Tao is forgotten, goodness and piety appear. When the body's intelligence declines, cleverness and knowledge step forth. When there… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
. . . These are notions of the mind, which is like a knife, always chipping away at the Tao, trying to… — Laozi Copy Share Image
The amount that she loved us was beyond her reach. It could not be quantified or contained. It was the ten thousand… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
Taoism ... is the Religion of the Tao, a term meaning Path or Way, but denoting in this peculiar case the way,… — Jan Jakob Maria de Groot Copy Share Image
The ancient Masters didn't try to educate the people, but kindly taught them to not-know. When they think that they know the… — Laozi Copy Share Image
True perfection seems imperfect, yet it is perfectly itself. True fullness seems empty, yet it is fully present. True straightness seems crooked.… — Laozi Copy Share Image
“The sword is a handle onto the Way of the world that is offering itself to you. If you are willful it… — Doc Pruyne Copy Share Image
Sorcery breaks no law of nature because there is no Natural Law, only the spontaneity of natura naturans, the tao. Sorcery violates… — Hakim Bey Copy Share Image
If you persist in trying to attain what is never attained (It is Tao's gift), if you persist in making effort to… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Do you think that you can clear your mind by sitting constantly in silent meditation? This makes your mind narrow, not clear.… — Laozi Copy Share Image
If somebody murders somewhere, I have a part in it. Even if I am a sleeper - I was sleeping, I don´t… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao The name that can be named is not the eternal Name.… — Laozi Copy Share Image
True zazen is surrendering every moment. But surrendering to what? It really does not matter what we call it: God or the… — Dennis Merzel Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is part of everything and so our minds have to be very big to encompass all things, to understand all things… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The saying goes, 'The sage rests, truly rests and is at ease.' This manifests itself in calmness and detachment, so that worries… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Standing on "tip toe", one stands not firmly. Straining in stride, one cannot walk far. Flaunting of deeds, one is unfavorably noticed.… — Laozi Copy Share Image
She who is centered in the Tao can go where she wishes, without danger. She perceives the universal harmony, even amid great… — Laozi Copy Share Image
All excuses are nothing more than misalignments with God. Just imagine the great creative Source needing an excuse. It doesn't have any… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
Act without doing; work without effort. Think of the small as large and the few as many. Confront the difficult while it… — Laozi Copy Share Image
The Tao never does anything, yet through it all things are done. If powerful men and women could venter themselves in it,… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Governing a large country is like frying a small fish. You spoil it with too much poking. Center your country in the… — Laozi Copy Share Image
“This is echoed by King-scott (1996, 295), who warns that unless technology-related issues are integrated into translator-training programmes, there is a real… — Lynne Bowker Copy Share Image
“Memory: Recognizing the value of an alert mind and an alert memory, I will encourage mine to become alert by taking care… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
The great Tao flows everywhere. All things are born from it, yet it doesn't create them. It pours itself into its work,… — Laozi Copy Share Image
