Taoism Quotes - Page 18

• The sage is one with the world, and lives in harmony with it.

  Laozi

  Sage, World, Harmony

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• Harmony is called the eternal. Knowing the eternal is called clarity.

  Laozi

  Knowing, Clarity, Harmony

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• Praise and disgrace cause fear.

  Laozi

  Causes, Praise, Disgrace

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• Praise leads to weakness. Getting it causes fear, losing it causes fear.

  Laozi

  Weakness, Causes, Losing

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• Can you gather your vital breath and yet be tender like a newborn baby?

  Laozi

  Baby, Newborn, Breaths

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• The one who is filled by virtue is like a newborn baby.

  Laozi

  Baby, Newborn, Virtue

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• When family ties are disturbed, devoted children arise.

  Laozi

  Children, Ties, Arise

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• Abandon benevolence, discard duty, and people will return to the family ties.

  Laozi

  Ties, People, Return

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• Yielding, like ice about to melt.

  Laozi

  Ice, Tao Ching, Tao Te Ching Leadership

  Laozi, Burton Watson, Stephen Addiss, Stanley Lombardo (1993). “Dao de Jing”, p.15, Hackett Publishing

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• For a person who lives in time, differences are the most important thing because they represent your existence.

  Frederick Lenz

  Differences, Important, Time Difference

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• Initially there's absolutely nothing.

  Frederick Lenz

  Absolutely Nothing

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• When we have complements or oppositions, change occurs.

  Frederick Lenz

  Complement, Opposition

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• We can think of descriptions almost as computer languages, an operative description that only deals with very simple operations. Its code is sex - Male, female, dark, light, up down, in out - its the language of duality.

  Frederick Lenz

  Sex, Dark, Simple

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• The Chinese used the symbol of tai chi, the undifferentiated reality - no separation, no left and right.

  Frederick Lenz

  Reality, Chinese, Separation

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• Thorn bushes grow where armies have camped.

  Laozi

  Army, Grows

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• Battles are followed by years of famine.

  Laozi

  Years, Battle, Famine

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• Weapons are ominous tools. They are abhorred by all creatures. Anyone who follows the Way shuns them.

  Laozi

  Tools, Weapons, Way

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• Those in public office who do not love the people are thieves stealing salaries. Those who teach but do not themselves practice what they teach are mere talkers. Those who try to do successful work without considering development of character will find it insubstantial.

  Zicheng Hong

  Character, Successful, Practice

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• In the mind engaged in struggling with hardship, one always finds something delightful. The sorrow of disappointment arises in the complacency of satisfaction.

  Zicheng Hong

  Disappointment, Struggle, Sorrow

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• The learned should be vigorous and diligent, but they should also be free-spirited. If they are too rigorous and austere, they have the death-dealing quality of autumn but lack the life-giving quality of spring. How can they develop people then?

  Zicheng Hong

  Spring, Autumn, People

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• If the mind is illumined, there is clear blue sky in a dark room. If the thoughts are muddled, there are malevolent ghosts in broad daylight.

  Zicheng Hong

  Dark, Blue, Sky

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• To find the Tao, there is nowhere you need to search. If it is not inside you, it is not the Tao.

  Confucius

  Needs, Tao, Ifs

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• People know that fame and position are pleasant, but they do not know that the pleasure of anonymity is most real. People know that hunger and cold are distressing, but they do not know that the distress of not experiencing cold or hunger is greater.

  Zicheng Hong

  Real, People, Cold

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• Hope and fear are both phantoms that arise from thinking of the self. When we don't see the self as self, what do we have to fear?

  Laozi

  Thinking, Self, Tao Te Ching

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• The essence of Taoism is really expressed by these few words. Taoism is the way of the child, the way of the fool, the way of someone who doesn't need to be noticed.

  Frederick Lenz

  Children, Essence, Needs

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