Taoism Quotes - Page 20

• When Simplicity is broken up, it is made into instruments. Evolved individuals who employ them, are made into leaders. In this way, the Great System is United.

  Laozi

  Broken, Simplicity, Leader

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• Examine everything that you've been taught, not simply what you've been taught in school, but the images that have been held up to you since the time of your birth.

  Frederick Lenz

  School, Up To You, Taught

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• Get some distance on yourself and undertand the multilevel structure that's operating. There's a power structure within you. You're a very political creature.

  Frederick Lenz

  Distance, Political, Structure

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• Alow immortality to work through you. Be but a mere instrument. And that instrument should be so absorbed in the perfect perfection of existence, that it knows not even that it is absorbed.

  Frederick Lenz

  Perfect, Immortality, Should

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• Be in harmony with the Tao, with the basic principles of creation. To not be in harmony with that flow, no matter how hard you meditate, you will not be happy and you won't be liberated.

  Frederick Lenz

  Principles, Matter, Flow

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• The realms of good fortune and calamity in human life are all made of thoughts and imaginings. Therefore Buddhists say that the burning of desire for gain is itself a pit of fire, while drowning in greedy love is itself a bitter sea. The moment thoughts are pure, fierce flames become a pond; the moment you become aware, the boat has arrived on the further shore. If your thoughts vary at all, your world will immediately differ, so can we not be careful?

  Zicheng Hong

  Buddhist, Love Is, Fire

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• Even if you can't get rid of the heat, as long as you can get rid of bother with the heat, your body is always on a cool terrace. Even if you can't get rid of poverty, as long as you can get rid of the sadness of poverty, your mind always lives in a comfortable abode.

  Zicheng Hong

  Sadness, Long, Mind

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• When the Way governs the world, the proud stallions drag dung carriages. When the Way is lost to the world, war horses are bred outside the city.

  Laozi

  Horse, War, Cities

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• Those who have compassion when they do battle will be victorious. Those who likewise defend themselves will be safe. Heaven will rescue and protect them with compassion.

  Laozi

  Compassion, Heaven, Battle

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• Excellent warriors are not violent.

  Laozi

  Warrior, Excellent, Violent

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• Excellent soldiers are not furious.

  Laozi

  Soldier, Excellent, Furious

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• Excellent conquerors do not engage.

  Laozi

  Excellent, Conqueror

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• Warriors say: I dare not be like the host, but would rather be like the guest. I dare not advance an inch, but would rather retreat a foot.

  Laozi

  Warrior, Feet, Guests

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• No misfortune is worse than underestimating the enemy. Underestimating the enemy, I risk losing my treasure.

  Laozi

  Risk, Enemy, Treasure

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• When equal armies battle, the grieving one will be victorious.

  Laozi

  Army, Grieving, Battle

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• The unyielding army will not win.

  Laozi

  Army, Winning, Unyielding

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• Yielding is the way of the Tao.

  Laozi

  Acceptance, Way, Tao Ching

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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, Ordinary

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

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• Worlds and particles, bodies and beings, time and space: All are transient expressions of the Tao.

  Laozi

  Time, Expression, Space

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

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• Does one scent appeal more than another? Do you prefer this flavor, or that feeling? Is your practice sacred and your work profane? Then your mind is separated: from itself, from oneness, from the Tao.

  Laozi

  Practice, Oneness, Feelings

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

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• All the fish needs is to get lost in the water. All man needs is to get lost in Tao.

  Zhuangzi

  Men, Water, Needs

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• Though (the Tao) is uncreated itself, it creates all things. Because it has no substance, it can enter into where there is no space. Exercising by returning to itself, winning victories by remaining gentle and yielding, it is softer than anything, and therefore overcomes everything hard.

  Laozi

  Exercise, Winning, Space

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• He who knows himself is enlightened.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Hypocrisy, Enlightened

  Laozi (2002). “Tao Te Ching: The Way of Virtue”, p.45, Square One Publishers, Inc.

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• A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants. A good scientist has freed himself of concepts and keeps his mind open to what is.

  Laozi

  Change, Artist, Intuition

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• To exercise no-thought and rest in nothing is the first step toward resting in Tao. To start from nowhere and follow no road is the first step toward attaining Tao.

  Zhuangzi

  Exercise, Firsts, Steps

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