Knowing honor, but clinging to disgrace, you become the valley of the world. — Laozi Copy Share Image
He (the sage) wants all things to follow their own nature, but dares not act. — Laozi Copy Share Image
If you scramble about in search of inner peace, you will lose your inner peace. — Laozi Copy Share Image
The one who can dissolve her mind will suddenly discover the Tao at her feet... — Laozi Copy Share Image
When enlightened people are so poor that they cannot help others, if they speak a word to awaken the confused or to… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
When there's no difference, there's no time, no world, no separativity - and there's no you ... nor is there an I. — Frederick Lenz 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 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
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
Attention is the mind's feet; if you do not control your attention strictly, it runs into misleading pathways. — Zicheng Hong 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
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
There is no greater fortune than having few concerns, no greater misfortune than having many worries. Only those who have suffered over… — Zicheng Hong 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
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
In adversity, everything that surrounds you is a kind of medicine that helps you refine your conduct, yet you are unaware of… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
“[T]he natural universe is not a linear system. It involves an infinitude of variables interacting simultaneously, so that it would take incalculable… — Alan W. Watts Copy Share Image
“The yin-yang view of the world is serenely cyclic. Fortune and misfortune, life and death, whether on small scale or vast, come… — Alan W. Watts Copy Share Image
“[T]he art of life is more like navigation than warfare, for what is important is to understand the winds, the tides, the… — Alan W. Watts Copy Share Image
Heaven's Way is like stretching a bow. The high is lowered and the low is raised. Excess is reduced and deficiency is… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Joy, anger, sorrow, happiness, find no place in that man's breast; for to him all creation is ONE. And all things being… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
“True strength. There is no conflict with vulnerability or humility. Indeed, vulnerability and humility are essential here, and ultimately what makes strength… — Darrell Calkins Copy Share Image
“What is the book (or books) you’ve given most as a gift, and why? Or what are one to three books that… — Timothy Ferriss Copy Share Image
“If a man is crossing a river and an empty boat collides with his own skiff, even though he be a bad-tempered… — Osho Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The realms of good fortune and calamity in human life are all made of thoughts and imaginings. Therefore Buddhists say that the… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
“But Taoism must on no account be understood as a revolution against convention, although it has sometimes been used as a pretext… — Alan Wilson Watts Copy Share Image
Sexual desire may burn like fire, but when you give a thought to when you are ill, then your excitement dies down.… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
“Let your eyes see what they see, not what others want you to see. Let your ears hear what they naturally hear,… — Liezi Copy Share Image
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