My idea of enlightenment is when ego and Tao are fused, and Tao is perceived as ego. Then everything happens with complete… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Understand this if nothing else: spiritual freedom and oneness with the Tao are not randomly bestowed gifts, but the rewards of conscious… — Laozi Copy Share Image
There is danger for the eye in seeing too clearly, danger for the ear in hearing too sharply and danger to the… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Can one alter one´s chief feature?" asked someone else. First it is necessary to know it. If you know it, much will… — P.D. Ouspensky Copy Share Image
A brave and passionate man will kill or be killed. A brave and calm man will always preserve life. Of these two… — Laozi Copy Share Image
“If I knew then what I know now I guess it'd make no difference; Fate's sure in the way somehow. What's important… — Ana Claudia Antunes Copy Share Image
To bear and not to own; to act and not lay claim; to do the work and let it go: for just… — Anonymous 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
“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
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
The idea that each of us can be directly spiritual is radical. Most religions are based not on teaching adherents to be… — Ming-Dao Deng 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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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 best athlete wants his opponent at his best. The best general enters the mind of his enemy. The best businessman serves… — Laozi Copy Share Image
If you overesteem great men, people become powerless. If you overvalue possessions, people begin to steal. The Master leads by emptying people's… — Laozi Copy Share Image
I first emailed Tao Lin a story I wrote about the experience of losing my virginity sometime in April 2011. He didn't… — Marie Calloway Copy Share Image
