Misery is what happiness rests upon. Happiness is what misery lurks beneath. — 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
If the sage wants to stand above people, he must speak to them from below. If he wants to lead people, he… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Seal the openings, shut the doors, and until your last day you will not be exhausted. Widen the openings, interfere, and until… — Laozi 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
Get some distance on yourself and undertand the multilevel structure that's operating. There's a power structure within you. You're a very political… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When the emperor is crowned or the three dukes are appointed, rather than sending a gift of jade carried by four horses,… — Laozi Copy Share Image
“For Taoism concerns itself with unconventional knowledge, with the understanding of life directly, instead of in the abstract, linear terms of representational… — Alan Wilson Watts Copy Share Image
The Grand Canyon is living evidence of the power of water over a period of time. The power may not manifest immediately.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“The power-hungry wanter their followers to believe that heaven was a place to which some people - and only people - went… — Benjamin Hoff Copy Share Image
My own words are not the medicine, but a prescription; not the destination, but a map to help you reach it. When… — Laozi Copy Share Image
“It’s not about lighting up every shadow or chasing certainty. Rather, it’s learning to trust the stillness where nothing is visible—because that’s… — Monica Laura Rapeanu Copy Share Image
Regardless of what you want to call it, guys need some type of spirituality they can grab onto. If it's Christianity, which… — Barry Zito Copy Share Image
Alow immortality to work through you. Be but a mere instrument. And that instrument should be so absorbed in the perfect perfection… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
What we mean by Tao is the way or course of Nature. This way has nothing good or bad, it is a… — Anonymous 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
The learned should be vigorous and diligent, but they should also be free-spirited. If they are too rigorous and austere, they have… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
Lao Tsu uses the anology of the tree. The old hard tree breaks and falls when the wind blows. The young tree… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Seal the openings, shut the doors, dull the sharpness, untie the knots, dim the light, become one with the dust. This is… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Worlds and particles, bodies and beings, time and space: All are transient expressions of the Tao. — Laozi Copy Share Image
“Stop a bit and think it over. There do be some knots mighty aisy to tie but the untying is a cat… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
For a person who lives in time, differences are the most important thing because they represent your existence. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The sound man, immune as to a sacrifice of straw dogs, faces the passing human generations. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
People turn their eyes and ears to him (the sage), and the sage cares for them like his own children. — Laozi Copy Share Image
Take time to listen to what is said without words, to obey the law too subtle to be written, to worship the… — Laozi Copy Share Image
“Before laissez-faire there was wu wei. “Practise not doing and everything will fall into place,” says the Tao Te Ching, Taoism’s primer.” — Gordon G. Chang Copy Share Image
When you accurately perceive the fluidity of things, you can also begin to perceive the constancy behind them: the creative, transformative, boundless,… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Our body is a small universe; to regulate emotions and feelings is a way of harmonization. — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
When it reaches a blockage, water find the easiest path around the blockage, or it continues to assemble, and flows over the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Gradually, you were given a description of the world, a way of seeing, which is largely sexual. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Attention is the mind's feet; if you do not control your attention strictly, it runs into misleading pathways. — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
The man who has some respect for his person keeps his carcass out of sight, hides himself as perfectly as he can. — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Do not make them (people) weary at their work. If you do not make them weary, they will not be weary of… — Laozi Copy Share Image
The Master doesn't seek fulfillment. For only those who are not full are able to be used which brings the feeling of… — Laozi Copy Share Image
When the world is ruled according to the Way, the ghosts lose their power. The ghosts do not really lose their power,… — Laozi Copy Share Image
If those who give are conscious of their own generosity and those who receive feel indebted, they are no longer family but… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
Unexpected hardship refines people; if you can accept it, both mind and body will benefit. If you cannot accept it, on the… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
