The Tao Quotes

The one who can dissolve her mind will suddenly discover the Tao at her feet.

What man has more than enough and gives it to the world? Only the man of Tao.

The scholar gains every day; the man of Tao loses every day.

Attending fully and becoming supple, Can you be as a newborn babe?

The hard and stiff will be broken. The soft and supple will prevail.

In the pursuit of learning, every day something is acquired. In the pursuit of Tao, every day something is dropped.

It is fitting for a great nation to yield.

Yielding, like ice about to melt.

Tao is beyond words and beyond things. It is not expressed either in word or in silence. Where there is no longer word or silence Tao is apprehended.

If you have one wish, wish for everything to be exactly as it is. Then wait patiently for your wish to come true.

What we mean by Tao is the way or course of Nature. This way has nothing good or bad, it is a mere flowing of things following the development and decline attributes of the moment.

The truly great man dwells on what is real and not what is on the surface.

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.

When you study the Tao Te Ching, you have to use your heart to try to imagine what Tao really is.

If this seems complex, the reason is because Tao is both simple and complex. It is complex when we try to understand it, and simple when we allow ourselves to experience it.

With "Taipei" Tao Lin becomes the most interesting prose stylist of his generation...

Then I did The Tao of Steve and that was at Sundance in 2000 where it did really well.

The Tao cannot be divided, it cannot be shared.

Many sections are taken up with political discussions and how the way of the ruler, the merchant, the householder, and the army interact with the Tao.

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.

Tao can be used by anybody, but it does not beling to anyone. It is just like air; everyone can breathe the air, but no one can claim ownership of the air.

Once you open your heart, you will start to absorb many things that come from the source - from Tao itself.

As Lao Tzu says, "The Tao that can be named is not the true Tao".

Change,connectivity,and learning to live well with others and with Nature and her ways will be the features of the world when seen through the eye of Tao.

The Tao's principle is spontaneity.

When the great Tao is abandoned, benevolence and righteousness arise.

From now back to antiquity, its (Tao's) name has not been lost. Thereby, see the origin of all.

A follower of the Way (Tao) loses something each day. Loss after loss until arriving at Non Action (Wu Wei).

Better stop short than fill to the brim. Oversharpen the blade, and the edge will soon blunt. Amass a store of gold and jade, and no one can protect it.

Giving birth and nourishing, Bearing yet not possessing, Working yet not taking credit, Leading yet not dominating, This is the Primal Virtue.

Tao in the world is like a river flowing home to the sea.

Those who of old were good practicers of Tao did not use it to make people bright, but rather used it to make them simple.

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.

The Tao which you know is not the eternal Tao

Approach the universe with Tao, And evil will have no power. Not that evil is not powerful, But its power will not be used to harm others.

The follower of Tao is always flexible and adaptable to circumstance.

I don't own a scale, and Tao banned the word 'fat' from our house. If we eat too much, we say, 'I feel clogged up.'

My idea of enlightenment is when ego and Tao are fused, and Tao is perceived as ego. Then everything happens with complete appropriateness.

You will ride the Tao toward the concrescence and will be able to live in the light of its anticipation.

To only responsible choice I can make is to be love and happiness." Vincellent"Love the world as you love yourself".Lao Tze"The next step in mans evolution will be the survival of the wisest.

When people see some things as beautiful, other things become ugly.When people see some things as good, other things become bad.

There isa time to liveand a time to diebut never to reject the moment.

Under heaven all can see beauty as beauty only because there is ugliness. All can know good as good only because there is evil.

One gains by losing and loses by gaining.

Heaven’s Tao is impartial, yet those who follow its compassionate waywill always be nourished

With those who are kindthe sage is kindWith those who are not kindthe sage is also kindbecause the way of Tao is kindness

Heaven and earthbegin in the unnamed:name’s the motherof the ten thousand things.

Material and infinite are inseparableAppreciating their interconnectednessis the gateway to understanding

Art reaches its greatest peak when devoid of self-conciousness. Freedom discovers man the moment he loses concern over what impression he is making or about to make.

Too much thinking causes confusion and anxietybetter to stick with the simplicity of Tao