Valuing unusual conduct is not as good as being careful about ordinary actions. — Zicheng Hong 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
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
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
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
So the unwanting soul sees what's hidden, and the ever-wanting soul sees only what it wants. — Anonymous 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
When the government is quite unobtrusive, people are indeed pure. When the government is quite prying, people are indeed conniving. — Laozi Copy Share Image
Lao Tsu says the way of life is ancient, timeless. It is existence which he calls the Tao - a mysterious source,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The world's beginning is its mother. To have found the mother is also to know the children. Although you know the children,… — Laozi Copy Share Image
There is a true Buddha in family life; there is a real Tao in everyday activities. If people can be sincere and… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
Those who trust others will find that not everyone is necessarily sincere, but they will be sincere themselves. Those who suspect others… — Zicheng Hong 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
I was raised a Christian but have looked at other religions, some of the Eastern things. I was into Taoism for a… — Rick Springfield 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
As it acts in the world, the Tao is like the bending of a bow. The top is bent downward; the bottom… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Therefore, the truly great man, although he does not injure others, does not credit himself with charity and mercy (these are natural… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
“According to tradition, the originator of Taoism, Lao-tzu, was an older contemporary of Kung Fu-tzu, or Confucius, who died in 479 B.C.1… — Alan Wilson Watts Copy Share Image
“For Lao-tzu’s Taoism is the philosophical equivalent of jujitsu, or judo, which means the way of gentleness. Its basis is the principle… — Alan Wilson Watts 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
“There is one element in Christianity which was not borrowed from Paganism -- religious intolerance. Referring to Buddhism, Confucianism, and Taoism, a… — John E. Remsburg Copy Share Image
“Travel is such a wonderful experience! Especially when you forget you are traveling. Then you will enjoy whatever you see and do.… — Liezi 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
What is essential to practice the Tao is to get rid of cravings and vexations. If these afflictions are not removed, it… — Zhang Sanfeng Copy Share Image
