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219 Tao quotes by 49 unique authors

The tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao The name that can be named is not the eternal Name. The unnamable is… — Laozi
The Tao has no place for pettiness, and nor has Virtue. Pettiness is dangerous to Virtue; pettiness is dangerous to the Tao. It is said,… — Zhuangzi
. . . These are notions of the mind, which is like a knife, always chipping away at the Tao, trying to render it graspable… — Laozi
The follower of Tao is always flexible and adaptable to circumstance. — Ming-Dao Deng
Then I did The Tao of Steve and that was at Sundance in 2000 where it did really well. — Donal Logue
Initially I was very drawn to the Tao Te Ching, the Taoist philosophy. It was helping me deal with the balance of these external and… — Joshua Waitzkin
There's a source, there's a perennial source from which all things come forth. We call it the Godhead, Nirvana, the Tao, enlightenment. It's big; it's… — Frederick Lenz
A mystic sees beyond the illusion of separateness into the intricate web of life in which all things are expressions of a single Whole. You… — Joan Z. Borysenko
If you want to accord with the Tao, just do your job, then let go. — Laozi
The Tao is in all things, in their divisions and their fullness. What I dislike about divisions is that they multiply, and what i dislike… — Zhuangzi
What man has more than enough and gives it to the world? Only the man of Tao. — Laozi
The true Way is sublime. It can't be expressed in language. Of what use are scriptures? But someone who sees his own nature finds the… — Bodhidharma
Someone who seeks the Way doesn't look beyond himself. — Bodhidharma
The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They're not the Way. — Bodhidharma
The Simonian system can be extracted from the writings of Hippolytus. The cosmos begins with the one root, which is unfathomable Silence, pre-existent, limitless power,… — Edward F Edinger
Marian Head is a true student of Tao. Her insightful and persuasive 'Wu-Wei' approaches for personal transformation reach our hearts with open invitation to join… — Chungliang Al Huang
The mark of a good marriage is partnership and continuing to feel inspired by your spouse. I had that with Tao. But the end is… — Olivia Wilde
I don't own a scale, and Tao banned the word 'fat' from our house. If we eat too much, we say, 'I feel clogged up.' — Olivia Wilde
The idea that each of us can be directly spiritual is radical. Most religions are based not on teaching adherents to be directly spiritual, but… — Ming-Dao Deng
It is too facile to say that the way to follow Tao is to simply go along with the flow of life. Sometimes, like the… — Ming-Dao Deng
We may be floating on Tao, but there is nothing wrong with steering. If Tao is like a river, it is certainly good to know… — Ming-Dao Deng
An open mind, in questions that are not ultimate, is useful. But an open mind about the ultimate foundations either of Theoretical or of Practical… — C.S. Lewis
The amount that she loved us was beyond her reach. It could not be quantified or contained. It was the ten thousand named things in… — Cheryl Strayed
I know it's not thematically in tune with my new job and all, but I find it effective. Build a man a fire and he's… — Jim Butcher
Change,connectivity,and learning to live well with others and with Nature and her ways will be the features of the world when seen through the eye… — Ilchi Lee

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