Taoism Quotes - Page 23

• 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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• The dreams of existence of that we call time, space, matter, subject, object, yin, yang - everything flows forth from this tai chi.

  Frederick Lenz

  Dream, Space, Yang

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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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• I used to think that you could find peace and it would always be there. And there is a sense of that. But even in the worst moments, catch yourself and remember that within the storm of misfortune there is good fortune. Just get in practice with what they call in Taoism the Wu-wei; the non-action and becoming the observer of it. Just notice and stay at peace with it. I must have admit, that I still have those really disrupting moments.

  Wayne Dyer

  Thinking, Storm, Remember

  Source: www.drwaynedyer.com

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

  Frederick Lenz

  Innocence

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• Unconscious of the existence of Tao, beings live supposing themselves to be separate from the universal intelligence, supposing themselves to be powerful or to be weak, thinking that they live their lives and die their deaths.

  Frederick Lenz

  Powerful, Thinking, Weak

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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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• 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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• 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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• The wise man is one who knows what he does not know.

  Laozi

  Wise, Men, Doe

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• The way of heaven is to help and not harm.

  Laozi

  Heaven, Way, Helping

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• The Tao never acts with force, yet there is nothing that it can not do.

  Laozi

  Tao, Force, Can Not

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• If good happens, good; if bad happens, good.

  Laozi

  Tao Te Ching, Tao Ching, Happens

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• As it acts in the world, the Tao is like the bending of a bow. The top is bent downward; the bottom is bent up. It adjusts excess and deficiency so that there is perfect balance.

  Laozi

  Perfect, Balance, Bending

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• The teachings of Osho, in fact, encompass many religions, but he is not defined by any of them. He is an illuminating speaker on Zen, Taoism, Tibetan Buddhism, Christianity and ancient Greek philosophy... and also a prolific author.

  Nevill Drury

  Philosophy, Teaching, Buddhism

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• I was raised a Christian but have looked at other religions, some of the Eastern things. I was into Taoism for a while and Confucianism. Just different approaches and some have really stayed with me.

  Rick Springfield

  Christian, Different, Confucianism

  "Rick Springfield: The Journey Is Never Over". Interview with Howard Kerbel, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 19, 2014.

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• All of Chinese thinking - Confucianism, Taoism, as well as Buddhism - contains the idea that in the course of life, man will shape harmoniously those psychic and physical predispositions that he received as capital assets by unifying them and giving them form from within a center.

  Richard Wilhelm

  Buddhism, Men, Thinking

  Richard Wilhelm (2014). “Lectures on the "I Ching": Constancy and Change”, p.162, Princeton University Press

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• When you are but slightly involved in the world, the effect the world has on you is also slight. When you are deeply enmeshed in affairs, you machinations also deepen. So for enlightened people simplicity is better than refinement, and freedom is better than punctiliousness.

  Zicheng Hong

  People, Simplicity, World

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• Virtue is the master of talent, talent is the servant of virtue. Talent without virtue is like a house where there is no master and their servant manages its affairs. How can there be no mischief?

  Zicheng Hong

  House, Talent, Affair

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• If you do not join the polluted, then you are pure; if you reject society in search of purity, that is not purity but fanaticism.

  Zicheng Hong

  Purity, Rejects, Pure

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• Public behavior is nurtured in private; earthshaking measures come form careful steps.

  Zicheng Hong

  Steps, Behavior, Form

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• Taoism is not a religion, although perhaps it has been made into one by some people. Lao Tsu's way of life occurs in any spiritual philosophy.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Philosophy, People

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• Our seeing is sexual initially.

  Frederick Lenz

  Seeing

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