Knowing the bright, but clinging to the dark, you become a model to the world. — Laozi Copy Share Image
Without innocence, nothing can further, as they say in the I Ching. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Those who know it do not speak about it. Those who speak about it do not know it. — Laozi Copy Share Image
To know that you do not know is the best. To pretend to know when you do not know is a disease. — Laozi Copy Share Image
But the basic Taoism that we are concerned with here is simply a particular way of appreciating, learning from, and working with… — Benjamin Hoff Copy Share Image
Stop trying to control. Let go of fixed plans and concepts, and the world will govern itself. — Laozi Copy Share Image
Change can only exist in time. Without time there is no change. Change can only exist with a background of that which… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
According to the ancient Chinese proverb, A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
People are hard to govern. The rulers interfere with too much. That is why people are hard to govern. — Laozi Copy Share Image
“He who defines himself can't know who he really is. He who has power over others can't empower himself.” — Lao Tzu Copy Share Image
The dreams of existence of that we call time, space, matter, subject, object, yin, yang - everything flows forth from this tai… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The road of truth is broad; set the mind on it, and you feel expansive openness and broad clarity. The road of… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
If you are not lax when at leisure, you will be effective when busy. If you are not absentminded in tranquility, that… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose,… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
To regard the fundamental as the essence, to regard things as coarse, to regard accumulation as deficiency, and to dwell quietly alone… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
At dusk the sunset is beautifully bright; at year's end the tangerines are even more fragrant. Therefore, at the end of their… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
Heaven cannot but be high. Earth cannot but be broad. The sun and moon cannot but revolve. All creation cannot but flourish.… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
In dealing with good people one should be magnanimous; in dealing with bad people one should be strict. In dealing with average… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
“[I]n trying to figure out the brain, the obstacle is that we have no finer instrument than the brain itself for the… — Alan W. Watts Copy Share Image
We hammer wood for a house, but it is the inner space that makes it liveable. — Laozi Copy Share Image
Rituals are the end of fidelity and honesty, and the beginning of confusion. — Laozi Copy Share Image
If you scramble about in search of inner peace, you will lose your inner peace. — Laozi Copy Share Image
The one who can dissolve her mind will suddenly discover the Tao at her feet... — Laozi Copy Share Image
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