Taoism Quotes - Page 22

• Seek not happiness too greedily and be not fearful of happiness.

  Laozi

  Happiness, Seeking Happiness, Fearful

  Laozi (1919). “Laotzu's Tao and Wu Wei”

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• Everything has its own place and function. That applies to people, although many don't seem to realize it, stuck as they are in the wrong job, the wrong marriage, or the wrong house. When you know and respect your Inner Nature, you know where you belong. You also know where you don't belong.

  Benjamin Hoff

  Life, Jobs, People

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• Learn not to be attached to other people, to certain types of experiences. Allow the flow of life to guide you wherever it is supposed to and accept with equanimity, with balance, with poise, whatever happens.

  Frederick Lenz

  People, Balance, Flow

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• Without innocence, nothing can further, as they say in the I Ching.

  Frederick Lenz

  Innocence

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• Chaos is not disorder. Chaos is the totality of existence. You could call it God. You could use the term, the Tao. I like chaos. It means more to us in English. Chaos is all things, wild and wonderful, connected perfectly by the life force.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mean, Science, Use

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• To regard the fundamental as the essence, to regard things as coarse, to regard accumulation as deficiency, and to dwell quietly alone with the spiritual and the intelligent - herein lie the techniques of Tao of the ancients.

  Zhuangzi

  Spiritual, Lying, Intelligent

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• Perfection is the willingness to be imperfect.

  Laozi

  Perfection, Imperfect, Willingness

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• Can you let go of words and ideas, attitudes and expectations? If so, then the Tao will loom into view.

  Laozi

  Letting Go, Attitude, Views

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

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• The Way that can be walked is not the eternal Way.

  Laozi

  Way, Eternal

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• The Way is empty, yet inexhaustible, like an abyss!

  Laozi

  Way, Empty, Abyss

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• The Way of Tao is this: It strives not, but conquers; It speaks not, but all is made clear; It summons not, but its house is crowded; It contrives not, but the design is perfect.

  Laozi

  Perfect, House, Design

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• People are considered pure of heart when they do not approach power and pomp; but those who can be near without being affected are the purest of all. People are considered high-minded when they do not know how to plot and contrive; but those who know how yet do not do so are the highest of all.

  Zicheng Hong

  Heart, People, Plot

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• To notice people's deceptions yet not reveal it in words, to bear people's insults without showing any change of attitude-there is endless meaning in this, and also endless function.

  Zicheng Hong

  Attitude, People, Deception

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• There's a sense of productivity which cripples us terribly. We either have to be doing something worthwile or not. We are back to our little binary male-female code.

  Frederick Lenz

  Males, Female, Littles

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• It's either good, bad or somewhere in between. It's either ying, yang or it's a combination. You're either male, female or somewhere in between. You've got to be somewhere on the map.

  Frederick Lenz

  Males, Female, Yang

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• In the West when you talk about yin and yang, people normally think of yin and yang as something that's linear. But in the east we tend to think of yin and yang as circles. They're two circles that actually can lie on top of each other, yet they remain separate.

  Frederick Lenz

  Lying, Thinking, Circles

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• The I Cing is a study in duality and what lies beyond duality.

  Frederick Lenz

  Lying, Study, Duality

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• Late at night, when everyone is quiet, sit alone and gaze into the mind; then you notice illusion ending and reality appearing. You gain a great sense of potential in this every time. Once you have noticed reality appearing yet find that illusion is hard to escape, you also find yourself greatly humbled.

  Zicheng Hong

  Night, Reality, Finding Yourself

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• Blessings often give rise to injury, so be careful when things are going your way. Success may be achieved after failure, so don't just give up when you've been disappointed.

  Zicheng Hong

  Giving Up, Blessing, May

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• By ethical argument and moral principle the greatest crimes are eventually shown to have been necessary, and, in fact, a signal benefit to mankind.

  Zhuangzi

  Principles, Benefits, Facts

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• There is much meaning in the word endure. For example, when dealing with unstable human feelings and uneven pathways in life, without endurance to hold you up, you may fall into a pit in the brush.

  Zicheng Hong

  Fall, Feelings, Endurance

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• Praise of power leads to weakness; Love of things leads to loss; The wise one leads by filling people's hearts; He destroys illusion and disturbs those who believe they are wise; He does nothing yet everything happens.

  Laozi

  Wise, Believe, Heart

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• ...the more you talk of it, the less you understand.

  Laozi

  Tao Te Ching, Saints And Sinners, Book Of Tao

  Laozi (2016). “The Tao Te Ching: Annotated Edition”, p.97, Dudeism LLC

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• The Tao is like a well; used but never used up.

  Laozi

  Tao Te Ching, Used, Wells

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• In ordinary life, we are not aware of the unity of all things, but divide the world into separate objects and events. This division is useful and necessary to cope with our everyday environment, but it is not a fundamental feature of reality. It is an abstraction devised by our discriminating and categorising intellect. To believe that our abstract concepts of separate 'things' and 'events' are realities of nature is an illusion.

  Fritjof Capra

  Believe, Reality, Unity

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