Faith Quote by Oliver Benjamin

“For Taoism concerns itself with unconventional knowledge, with the understanding of life directly, instead of in the abstract, linear terms of representational thinking.”

— Alan Wilson Watts

“The Tao that can be described is not the enduring and unchanging Tao.”

— Lao Tzu

When your mind is empty of prejudices you can see the Tao. When your heart is empty of desires you can follow the Tao.

— Lu Jun Hong

“To be a Taoist, one need not engage in fanatical denial of any part of life, nor does one need to leave family and…

— Ming-Dao Deng

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

— Frederick Lenz

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

Through working in harmony with life's circumstances, Taoist understanding changes what others may percieve as negative into something positive.

— Benjamin Hoff

“The Master is not trapped in opposites. His this is also a that. He sees that life becomes death and death becomes life, that…

— Stephen Mitchell

“it is really impossible to appreciate what is meant by the Tao without becoming, in a rather special sense, stupid.”

— Alan Wilson Watts

In harmony with the Tao, the sky is clear and spacious, the earth is solid and full, all creature flourish together, content with the…

— Laozi

“Rushing into action, you fail. Trying to grasp things, you lose them. Forcing a project to completion, you ruin what was almost ripe. Therefore…

— Lao Tzu

Tao is obscured when men understand only one pair of opposites, or concentrate only on a partial aspect of being. Then clear expression also…

— Zhuangzi