Discipline Quote by Alan W. Watts

Those who follow the Tao are of clear mind. They do not load their mind with anxieties and are flexible in their adjustment to…

— Zhuangzi

The idea that each of us can be directly spiritual is radical. Most religions are based not on teaching adherents to be directly spiritual,…

— Ming-Dao Deng

What is essential to practice the Tao is to get rid of cravings and vexations. If these afflictions are not removed, it is impossible…

— Zhang Sanfeng

But the basic Taoism that we are concerned with here is simply a particular way of appreciating, learning from, and working with whatever happens…

— Benjamin Hoff

Mind is knowledge, meditation is non-knowledge. Mind knows, meditation experiences. Mind can only give you a certain acquaintance but not the taste. If you…

— Rajneesh

Taoism shows us how to deal with life and death by realizing everything here is transitory but its substance is eternal:

— Frederick Lenz

Taoism extols the virtue of flexibility. What survives on earth is what effortlessly adapts to the changing environment and changing circumstances.

— Ernie J Zelinski

The Tao can't be perceived. Smaller than an electron, it contains uncountable galaxies. If powerful men and women could remain centered in the Tao,…

— Laozi

Everyone is a Taoist at heart. Everyone would like to follow nature, but we don't have enough tools yet to put the philosophy into…

— Arnold Mindell

Taoism is not a religion, although perhaps it has been made into one by some people. Lao Tsu's way of life occurs in any…

— Frederick Lenz

It means that Tao doesn't force or interfere with things, but lets them work in their own way, to produce results naturally. Then whatever…

— Benjamin Hoff

Taoism means streching your being, becoming both a man and a woman and joining within yourself, to be the heavens themselves, to stretch your…

— Frederick Lenz