We can say the stars are moving because we have a relative context. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When the uncarved wood is split, its parts are put to use. When the sage is put to use, he becomes the… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Returning to the source is stillness. It is returning to one's fate. Returning to one's fate is eternal. — Laozi Copy Share Image
Man takes his law from the Earth; the Earth takes its law from Heaven; Heaven takes its law from the Tao. The… — Lao Tzu Copy Share Image
To exercise no-thought and rest in nothing is the first step toward resting in Tao. To start from nowhere and follow no… — Zhuangzi 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
In the pursuit of learning, every day something is acquired. In the pursuit of Tao, every day something is dropped. — Laozi Copy Share Image
So the unwanting soul sees what's hidden, and the ever-wanting soul sees only what it wants. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Taoism is not a religion, although perhaps it has been made into one by some people. Lao Tsu's way of life occurs… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It's either good, bad or somewhere in between. It's either ying, yang or it's a combination. You're either male, female or somewhere… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“It’s not that the Dude believes in nothing—he’s no nihilist. It’s just that he entertains ideas so gingerly. Since he’s never angling… — Oliver Benjamin Copy Share Image
“[T]here is some other way of understanding and getting along with the process of nature than by translating it into words. After… — Alan W. Watts Copy Share Image
If you know that whatever is made inevitable breaks down, you needn't seek too hard for achievement. If you know that all… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
If you fear that people will know if you do something bad, then there is something good in bad. If you are… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
He who knows much about others may be learned, but he who understands himself is more intelligent. He who controls others may… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Two monks sit facing, playing chess on the mountain, The bamboo shadow on the board is dark and clear. Not a person… — Bai Juyi Copy Share Image
When those who give charity do so without any sense of self-satisfaction and without any thought of reward, even a small gift… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
Of all things, none does not revere the Way and honor virtue. Reverence of the Way and honoring virtue were not demanded… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Taoism has no rules. It's a suggestion for preceiving life in its wholeness, without unnessary categorization, yet enjoying the beauty of categorization. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Taoism is the way of water. The most frequent element or symbol refered to in Lao Tzu's wrtings is the symbol of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The highest virtue is not virtuous. Therefore it has virtue. The lowest virtue holds on to virtue. Therefore it has no virtue. — Laozi Copy Share Image
When one is not slipshod in small matters, not hypocritical in secret, and not reckless in disappointment, only then is one a… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
Approach your own inner life with a loving quality that accepts who you are without trying to change who you are. — Laozi Copy Share Image
Use justice to rule a country. Use surprise to wage war. Use non-action to govern the world. — Laozi Copy Share Image
If people live in constant fear of death, and if breaking the law is punished by death, then who would dare? — Laozi Copy Share Image
Why did the ancients praise the Way? Did they not say it was because you find what you seek and are saved… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Compromise to please others is not as good as integrity that annoys others. Rather than be praised without being good, it is… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
“The hard and mighty lie beneath the ground While the tender and weak dance on the breeze above.” — Lao Tzu Copy Share Image
“Life can be a process of observing what we are interfering with, rather than interfering with what we are observing.” — Lujan Matus Copy Share Image
When there is time, there has to be suffering. Because in time there's desire and attachment and transition. This is the world… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The sage does not act and therefore does not fail, does not seize and therefore does not lose. — Laozi Copy Share Image
Hope and fear are both phantoms that arise from thinking of the self. When we don't see the self as self, what… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We should not weep or cry or be upset when we see the generations pass, because all are forms of the infinite… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Only the intelligent knows how to identify all things as one. . . . When one is at ease with himself, one… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
My words are very easy to understand and very easy to practice; but there is no one in the world who is… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Do you think you can make the world a better place? I do not think you can. It is already perfect. — Laozi Copy Share Image
You are not anyone or anything in particular. You are awareness itself. You don't have a particular form. You contain everything or… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
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