My feeling or philosophy is closer to Taoism and Zen Buddhism, 'cause it's the most practical. — Harry Dean Stanton Copy Share Image
Knowing that you do not know is the best. Not knowing that you do not know is an illness. — Laozi Copy Share Image
Although there are weapons for tens and hundreds of soldiers, they will not be used. — Laozi Copy Share Image
Without the tao, Kindness and compassion are replaced by law and justice; Faith and trust are supplanted by ritual and ceremony. — Laozi Copy Share Image
Other people are joyous, like on the feast of the ox, like on the way up to the terrace in the spring.… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Be in harmony with the Tao, with the basic principles of creation. To not be in harmony with that flow, no matter… — Frederick Lenz 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
Some have lavish garments, carry sharp swords, and feast on food and drink. They possess more than they can spend. This is… — Laozi 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
The sage desires no desire, does not value rare treasures, learns without learning, recovers what people have left behind. — Laozi Copy Share Image
“...and after discarding the emptiness of the Big Congested Mess, we discover the fullness of Nothing.” — Benjamin Hoff Copy Share Image
A net set up to catch fish may snare a duck; a mantis hunting an insect may itself be set upon by… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
Bears, dragons, tempestuous on mountain and river, Startle the forest and make the heights tremble. Clouds darken beneath the darkness of rain,… — Li Bai Copy Share Image
Chaos is not disorder. Chaos is the totality of existence. You could call it God. You could use the term, the Tao.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“The senses, feelings, and thoughts must be allowed to be spontaneous in the faith that they will then order themselves harmoniously. To… — Alan W. Watts 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
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
Why can't we simply borrow what is useful to us from Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, especially Zen, as we borrow from Christianity, science,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“[W]hat is ordinarily felt as the wayward, unpredictable, dangerous, and even hostile world - including one's capricious emotions and inner feelings -… — Alan W. Watts Copy Share Image
I used to think that you could find peace and it would always be there. And there is a sense of that.… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
The substance of mind is the substance of heaven. A joyful thought is an auspicious star or a felicitous cloud. An angry… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
“The Pooh Way "By the time it came to the edge of the Forest the stream had grown up, so that it… — Benjamin Hoff Copy Share Image
The most important things in life can't be seen with the eyes. Ideas can't be seen. Love can't be seen. Honor can't… — Anthony DeStefano 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
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