Although there are weapons for tens and hundreds of soldiers, they will not be used. — Laozi Copy Share Image
Quiet your mind and stop judging and resisting and manipulating the natural way. — Laozi Copy Share Image
Hold on to the great image, and the whole world follows, follows unharmed, content and completely at peace. — Laozi Copy Share Image
If the mind is illumined, there is clear blue sky in a dark room. If the thoughts are muddled, there are malevolent… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habit. — Laozi Copy Share Image
When the Way is lost there is virtue. When virtue is lost there is benevolence. When benevolence is lost there is righteousness.… — Laozi Copy Share Image
The weak overcomes the strong. The soft overcomes the hard. Everybody in the world knows this, still nobody makes use of it. — Laozi Copy Share Image
“Tezyeme," he said, which meant something on the order of "it is happening the way it is supposed to happen.” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Look at this window: it is nothing but a hole in the wall, but because of it the whole room is full… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
(The Tao) is always present and always available. . . . If you are willing to be lived by it, you will… — Laozi Copy Share Image
“A Manifesto of Modern Taoism Students: Are you a Taoist? Qiguang Zhao: I refuse to be named. Ancient Taoist thinkers and their… — Qiguang Zhao Copy Share Image
If we're distracted from the continual flow of perfect mind that we're in, suddenly everything configures, everything solidifies. Suddenly a shape appears… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Man may rest in the eternal fitness; he may abide in the everlasting; and roam from the beginning to the end of… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
“[T]he world as described is included in but is not the same as the world as it is. As a way of… — Alan W. Watts Copy Share Image
Heaven's Way is like stretching a bow. The high is lowered and the low is raised. Excess is reduced and deficiency is… — Laozi Copy Share Image
“The yin-yang view of the world is serenely cyclic. Fortune and misfortune, life and death, whether on small scale or vast, come… — Alan W. Watts Copy Share Image
“[T]he art of life is more like navigation than warfare, for what is important is to understand the winds, the tides, the… — Alan W. Watts Copy Share Image
Is not the action of nature like the stretching of a bow? The high, it pulls down; the low, it lifts up;… — Laozi Copy Share Image
“1. Accept everything just the way it is. 2. Do not seek pleasure for its own sake. 3. Do not, under any… — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
“Once upon a time, I, Chuang Tzu, dreamt that i was a butterfly. flitting around and enjoying myself. I had no idea… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
“...you'd be surprised how many people violate this simple principle every day of their lives and try to fit square pegs into… — Benjamin Hoff Copy Share Image
What is most necessary for people and what is given us in great abundance, are experiences, especially experiences of the forces within… — Jacob Needleman 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
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
“It is fundamental to both Taoist and Confucian thought that the natural man is to be trusted, and from their standpoint it… — Alan Wilson Watts Copy Share Image
“Though there are exceptions, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Taoism tend to stress desirable states of consciousness, escaping the fretful, self-aware state of mind… — David C. Downing Copy Share Image
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