Taoism Quotes - Page 24

• 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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• There is another kind of wisdom, the wisdom of following - the wisdom of not taking the lead with your ego.

  Frederick Lenz

  Ego, Kind, Following

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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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• 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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• Our seeing is sexual initially.

  Frederick Lenz

  Seeing

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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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• If you know that whatever is made inevitable breaks down, you needn't seek too hard for achievement. If you know that all living beings inevitably die, you needn't work too hard on health lore.

  Zicheng Hong

  Achievement, Breaking Down, Made

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• Think about food on a full stomach and you find you don't care about taste. Think of lust after making love, and you find you don't care about sex. Therefore, if people always reflect on the regret they will feel afterward to forestall folly at the moment, they will be stable and will not err in action.

  Zicheng Hong

  Sex, Regret, Thinking

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• Those who have come to an impasse should examine their original intentions; those who have succeeded should note where they are heading.

  Zicheng Hong

  Intention, Notes, Should

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• Therefore, the truly great man, although he does not injure others, does not credit himself with charity and mercy (these are natural to him). He does not seek gain, but does not despise his followers who do. He struggles not for wealth, but does not take credit for leaving it alone... The ranks and emoluments of the world are to him no cause for joy, it's punishments and shame no cause for disgrace.

  Zhuangzi

  Struggle, Men, Joy

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• Sorrow and happiness are the heresies of virtue; joy and anger lead astray from TAO; love and hate cause loss of virtue. The heart unconscious of sorrow and happiness - that is perfect virtue. One, without change - that is perfect repose. Without any obstruction - that is the perfection of the unconditioned. Holding no relations with the external world, - that is perfection of the negative state. Without blemish of any kind, - that is the perfection of purity.

  Zhuangzi

  Hate, Heart, Loss

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• Joy, anger, sorrow, happiness, find no place in that man's breast; for to him all creation is ONE. And all things being thus united in ONE, his body and limbs are but as dust of the earth, and life and death, beginning, and end, are but as night and day, and cannot destroy his peace. How much less such trifles as gain or loss, misfortune or good fortune?

  Zhuangzi

  Loss, Night, Men

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• Man may rest in the eternal fitness; he may abide in the everlasting; and roam from the beginning to the end of all creation. He may bring his nature to a condition of ONE, he may nourish his strength; he may harmonise his virtue, and so put himself into partnership with God.

  Zhuangzi

  Men, May, Partnership

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• Is not the action of nature like the stretching of a bow? The high, it pulls down; the low, it lifts up; It takes from what is in excess In order to make good of what is deficient. Who can take what they have in excess and offer it to others?

  Laozi

  Order, Excess, Bows

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• Bears, dragons, tempestuous on mountain and river, Startle the forest and make the heights tremble. Clouds darken beneath the darkness of rain, streams pale with a pallor of mist. The gods of Thunder and Lightning Shatter the whole range.

  Li Bai

  Spring, Rain, Winter

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• Beneath the light, the river and hills are beautiful, The spring breeze bears the fragrance of flowers and grass. The mud has thawed, and swallows fly around. On the warm sand, mandarin ducks are sleeping.

  Du Fu

  Beautiful, Spring, Flower

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• If you are not lax when at leisure, you will be effective when busy. If you are not absentminded in tranquility, that will be useful in action. If you are not hypocritical in private, that will show up in public.

  Zicheng Hong

  Leisure, Lax, Action

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• Autumn clouds, vague and obscure; The evening, lonely and chill. I felt the dampness on my garments, But saw no spot, and heard no sound of rain.

  Bai Juyi

  Summer, Lonely, Rain

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• Cut brambles long enough, Sprout after sprout, And the lotus will bloom Of its own accord: Already waiting in the clearing, The single image of light. The day you see this, That day you will become it.

  Sun Bu'er

  Cutting, Reflection, Light

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• The relic from before birth Enters one's heart one day. Be as careful as if you were holding a full vessel, Be as gentle as if you were caressing an infant. The gate of earth should be shut tight, The portals of heaven should be first opened. Wash the yellow sprouts clean, And atop the mountain is thunder shaking the earth.

  Sun Bu'er

  Heart, Yellow, Meditation

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• A tree that can fill the span of a man's arms grows from a downy tip; A terrace nine stories high rises from level earth; A journey of a thousand miles starts from beneath one's feet.

  Laozi

  Journey, Men, Feet

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• We hammer wood for a house, but it is the inner space that makes it liveable.

  Laozi

  Space, House, Hammers

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