Tao Quotes - Page 13

• No words, phrases, or sentences are capable of describing or naming the Way, because once it is named, it is a false name and has to be eliminated. Once it is eliminated, only emptiness is left. When the false is abandoned, the true emerges.

  Henry Chang

  Wisdom, Names, Attachment

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• In our lives, when we do not create something out of total honesty, it cannot last long.

  Henry Chang

  Honesty, Long, Lasts

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• The Tao's principle is spontaneity.

  Laozi

  Taoism, Principles, Spontaneity

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• Do you think that you can clear your mind by sitting constantly in silent meditation? This makes your mind narrow, not clear. Integral awareness is fluid and adaptable, present in all places and at all times. That is true meditation. ... The Tao is clear and simple, and it doesn't avoid the world.

  Laozi

  Simple, Thinking, Meditation

  Laozi, Brian Browne Walker (1992). “Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu”

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• When you accurately perceive the fluidity of things, you can also begin to perceive the constancy behind them: the creative, transformative, boundless, immutable Tao.

  Laozi

  Creative, Taoism, Fluidity

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• My own words are not the medicine, but a prescription; not the destination, but a map to help you reach it. When you get there, quiet your mind and close your mouth. Don't analyze the Tao. Strive instead to live it: silently, undividedly, with your whole harmonious being.

  Laozi

  Medicine, Mind, Taoism

  Laozi, Brian Browne Walker (1992). “Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu”

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• The Tao is always at ease. It overcomes without competing, answers without speaking a word, arrives without being summoned, accomplishes without a plan. Its net covers the whole universe. And though its meshes are wide, it doesn't let a thing slip through.

  Laozi

  Overcoming, Answers, Ease

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• A sage is skilled at helping people without excluding anyone.

  Laozi

  People, Taoism, Sage

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• (The Tao) is always present and always available. . . . If you are willing to be lived by it, you will see it everywhere, even in the most ordinary things.

  Laozi

  Life, Philosophy, Taoism

  Laozi, Brian Browne Walker (1992). “Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu”

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• If you worry more for others' beliefs, then you will be their slave.

  Laozi

  Worry, Taoism, Belief

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• Rule your mind with serenity rather than with force and manipulation.

  Laozi

  Serenity, Mind, Taoism

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• Weapons are instruments of fear; they are not a wise man's tools. He uses them only when he has no choice.

  Laozi

  Wise, Men, Choices

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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• Shankara commented on Krishna, on the Upanishads, on the Brahma Sutras. Ramanuja commented on the ancient enlightened people, Vallabha did the same. It has always been so in the East, because much dust gathers as time passes. Now, the Upanishads were written in a totally different world. That man has disappeared, that mind has disappeared, that world no more exists.

  Rajneesh

  Men, Dust, People

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• Wenn jemand sich in Inkarnation befindet, bietet ihm dieser Körper das Problem, das er erlernen muss oder (wenn die Evolution fortgeschritten ist) bietet den Träger, der sich für die Art der jeweiligen Aufgabe am besten eignet. Ein orientalischer Körpertyp hat eine gewisse Anzahl von Fähigkeiten, und ein abendländischer Körpertyp weist andere und, wenn ich so sagen darf, ebenso gute Eignungen auf.

  Alice Bailey

  Art, Hats, Evolution

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• Can one alter one´s chief feature?" asked someone else. First it is necessary to know it. If you know it, much will depend on the quality of your knowing. If you know it well, then it is possible to change it.

  P.D. Ouspensky

  Knowing, Quality, Firsts

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• If somebody murders somewhere, I have a part in it. Even if I am a sleeper - I was sleeping, I don´t know about the man, I will never hear about him - and somebody somewhere, in the Himalayas, commits a murder, if we are not individuals I have a part in it, I am also responsible. It is not so easy to throw the responsibility: "I am not committing a murder, I am a saint." No saint is a saint because every sinner is implied in him.

  Rajneesh

  Sleep, Responsibility, Men

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• You can only hear clearly when you sit quietly, when you give your attention. Nor can you have order if you are not free to watch, if you are not free to listen, if you are not free to be considerate. This problem of freedom and order is one of the most difficult and urgent problems in life. It is a very complex problem. It needs to be thought over much more than mathematics, geography, or history.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Order, Giving, Watches

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (2003). “Krishnamurti on Education”, p.30, Krishnamurti Foundation Trust Ltd.

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• The Tao of the sage is work without effort.

  Laozi

  Work, Effort, Taoism

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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• Either in conflict with others or in harmony with them, we go through life like a runaway horse, unable to stop.

  Zhuangzi

  Horse, Conflict, Harmony

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• The truly great man dwells on what is real and not what is on the surface.

  Laozi

  Real, Men, Surface

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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• It is fitting for a great nation to yield.

  Laozi

  Yield, Fitting, Nations

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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• Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

  Laozi

  Darkness Within, Understanding, Tao Te Ching

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• Can you love or guide someone without any kind of expectation?

  Laozi

  Expectations, Taoism, Kind

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• That which offers no resistance can enter where there is no space.

  Laozi

  Space, Taoism, Resistance

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• The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They're not the Way.

  Bodhidharma

  Doctrine, Way, Truth Is

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.31, Macmillan

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