The sage knows without traveling, perceives without looking, completes without acting. — Laozi Copy Share Image
“[W] are belatedly realizing that the ill-treatment of the environment is damage to ourselves - for the simple reason that the subject… — Alan W. Watts Copy Share Image
If a great country yields to a small country, it will conquer the small country. If a small country yields to a… — Laozi Copy Share Image
When the government is quite unobtrusive, people are indeed pure. When the government is quite prying, people are indeed conniving. — Laozi Copy Share Image
Flowers should be viewed when half open, wine should be drunk only to subtle intoxication; there is great fun in this. If… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
Don't impose your will through manipulation of aggressive emotions and actions. — Laozi Copy Share Image
The I Ching tells us that for every ending there is a new beginning. In other words, what appears like a transition… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A strip of water's spread in the setting sun, Half the river's emerald, half is red. I love the third night of… — Bai Juyi Copy Share Image
I have three treasures that I cherish. The first is compassion. The second is moderation. The third is not claiming to be… — Laozi Copy Share Image
The primary quality that Lao Tzu seems to emobdy is humility, which is the image of water - seeking the common level… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We hammer wood for a house, but it is the inner space that makes it liveable. — Laozi Copy Share Image
The eyes and ears, seeing and hearing, are external plunderers; emotions, desires, and opinions are internal plunderers. But if the inner mind… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
Don't be too severe in criticizing people's faults; consider how much they can bear. Don't be too lofty in enjoining virtue, so… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
Supreme good is like water. Water greatly benefits all things, without conflict. It flows through places that people loathe. Thereby it is… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Even a wild horse can be tamed; even metal that is difficult to work eventually goes into a mold. If you take… — Zicheng Hong 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
“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
A dream is the meeting of minds; an event in our waking consciousness is the coming together of sensible substances. Hence our… — Lie Yukou Copy Share Image
