Quotes About Tao

#1. Attain complete emptiness,
Hold fast to stillness.
Understanding the ordinary:
Mind opens.
Mind opening leads to compassion,
Compassion to nobility,
Nobility to heavenliness,
Heavenliness to TAO.
TAO endures.
Your body dies.
There is no danger.

Lao-Tzu

#2. So it is said, for him who understands Heavenly joy, life is the working of Heaven; death is the transformation of things. In stillness, he and the yin share a single Virtue; in motion, he and the yang share a single flow.

Zhuangzi

#3. Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.

Alan W. Watts

#4. Our western mind lacking all culture in this respect, has never yet devised a concept, not even a name for "the union of opposites through the middle path", that most fundamental item of inward experience which could respectably be set against the Chinese concept of Tao.

Carl Jung

#5. I don't like happy people," Andrew said. "They're already happy; they don't need to be liked." "Wow, so selfless," Mark said. "You're a saint. I commend your selflessness. Amazing.

Tao Lin

#6. I don't believe that there is any fourth dimension, and I emphatically do not believe in Tao.

H.P. Lovecraft

#7. Was at the core of primeval beliefs. Its names are as old as history itself ... Dharmakaya, Tao, Brahman.

Dan Brown

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

Ming-Dao Deng

#9. The hard and mighty lie beneath the ground
While the tender and weak dance on the breeze above.

Lao-Tzu

#10. I'm not good with blogs and social networks because those things come and go. By the time I am used to one thing, a new type of social media is already trending.

Tao Okamoto

#11. Force is followed by loss of strength. This is not the way of the Tao. That which goes against the Tao comes to an early end.

Laozi

#12. The great Tao is universal like a flood ... All creatures depend on it, and it denies nothing to anyone. It does its work, but it makes no claims for itself. It clothes and feeds all, but it does not lord it over them.

Lao-Tzu

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

Laozi

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. Respect the people you lie to, Tao had taught her. Steal from them long enough, and you will begin to understand them.

Brandon Sanderson

#17. I like most any place if I have Internet access.

Tao Lin

#18. The Tao is unpredictable to those that live according to plans. Only those who have no agenda are in harmony with the Tao.

Laozi

#19. When the Superior Man eats he does not try to stuff himself; at rest he does not seek perfect comfort; he is diligent in his work and careful in speech. He avails himself to people of the Tao and thereby corrects himself. This is the kind of person of whom you can say, 'he loves learning.'

Confucius

#20. Hugh Jackman is just the nicest person in the world. I know everybody says that, and it's almost boring to hear, but he is really, really perfect.

Tao Okamoto

#21. Scholars of the highest class, when they hear about the Tao, earnestly carry it into practice.

Lao-Tzu

#22. Moose had no friends that year. A lot of the time a moose would feel tired and lean against other moose. Only there wouldn't be moose there and the moose would fall.

Tao Lin

#23. Understand this if nothing else: spiritual freedom and oneness with the Tao are not randomly bestowed gifts, but the rewards of conscious self-transformation and self-evolution.

Laozi

#24. The Tao is hidden, and has no name; but it is the Tao which is skilful at imparting (to all things what they need) and making them complete.

Lao-Tzu

#25. Find your own rhythm, and confidently go with that rhythm. When you become one with the rhythm and flow of your own life, you will encounter the rhythm of the universe that bestows harmony and order upon all things: the pulse of the cosmos, Yullyeo.

Ilchi Lee

#26. When the people of the world all know beauty as beauty, There arises the recognition of ugliness. When they all know the good as good, There arises the recognition of evil. - Lao Tzu, The Tao Te Ching

Scott Westerfeld

#27. The correct arrangement of words will make these bad feelings go away tonight.

Tao Lin

#28. When good thing are accomplished, it does not claim (or name) them. This is Te, which is close in meaning to power or virtue. It is something within a person, and it is enhanced by following the Tao, or 'that from which nothing can deviate'.

Laozi

#29. The Tao is great. The universe is great. Earth is great. Man is great. These are the four great powers. Man follows the earth. Earth follows the universe. The universe follows the Tao. The Tao follows only itself.

Laozi

#30. It means that Tao doesn't force or interfere with things, but lets them work in their own way, to produce results naturally. Then whatever needs to be done is done.

Benjamin Hoff

#31. I don't think music affects what words I choose to type in what order, within what punctuation, at this point, because I'm rereading and editing each sentence, at this point, in my published books, probably 100-150 times each, on average, and listening to probably 20-60 different songs in that time.

Tao Lin

#32. All that we do is governed by the law of opposites in which every so-called positive act is exactly and equally balanced by its opposite.;

Tony Parsons

#33. Yielding, like ice about to melt.

Laozi

#34. There was something undifferentiated and yet complete, which existed before Heaven and Earth. Soundless and formless, it depends on nothing and does not change. It operates everywhere and is free from danger. It may be considered the mother of the universe. I do not know its name; I call it Tao.

Lao-Tzu

#35. The three jewels of Tao: compassion, moderation, and humility. Balthasar said compassion leads to courage, moderation leads to generosity, and humility leads to leadership.

Christopher Moore

#36. When the ancient Masters said, "If you want to be given everything, give everything up," they weren't using empty phrases. Only in being lived by the Tao can you be truly yourself.

Laozi

#37. If I don't like someone and I start reading their stuff, it seems like my brain will just automatically start criticizing everything that's there. It's really hard to read a book without having all this outside information telling you what to think about it.

Tao Lin

#38. When the Great Tao (Way or Method) ceased to be observed, benevolence and righteousness came into vogue.

Lao-Tzu

#39. Only the intelligent knows how to identify all things as one ... When one is at ease with himself, one is near Tao. This is to let Nature take its own course.

Zhuangzi

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

Donal Logue

#41. He who knows others is wise; He who knows himself is enlightened. TAO TE CHING (600 B.C.E.)

Harvey Spencer Lewis

#42. I try not to think of myself as a person
but a metal object, built suddenly by machines in complete darkness
something impossible to hurt with a shovel

Tao Lin

#43. The Master's power is like this. He lets all things come and go effortlessly, without desire. He never expects results; thus he is never disappointed. He is never disappointed; thus his spirit never grows old.

Laozi

#44. Heaven cannot but be high. Earth cannot but be broad. The sun and moon cannot but revolve. All creation cannot but flourish. To do so is their TAO. But it is not from extensive study that this may be known, nor by dialectical skill that his may be made clear. The true sage will have none of these.

Zhuangzi

#45. This is what is called 'The mysterious Quality' (of the Tao).

Lao-Tzu

#46. I never thought anything about age. I believed sincerely and still do, that there's nothing I cannot do. I believe that all the power in the universe is right inside me.

Tao Porchon-Lynch

#47. It can often be profitable to try a technique on a problem even if you know in advance that it cannot possibly solve the problem completely.

Terence Tao

#48. Autumn is a reminder that while the leaves die and fall, there will always be Spring, a chance to replenish and be reborn again. We all have the opportunity to replenish ourselves, to be reborn.

Tao Porchon-Lynch

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

Laozi

#50. When I let go of who I am, I become who I might be.

Lao-Tzu

#51. The ancient teaching of Tao tells us that knowing what you really are is wisdom, and living it is virtue.

Ilchi Lee

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

Laozi

#53. If I were suddenly to become known, and (put into a position to) conduct (a government) according to the Great Tao, what I should be most afraid of would be a boastful display.

Lao-Tzu

#54. The Tao is told is not the Tao.

Laozi

#55. Marian Head is a true student of Tao. Her insightful and persuasive 'Wu-Wei' approaches for personal transformation reach our hearts with open invitation to join the 'soft' revolution and harmonious agreement for all.

Chungliang Al Huang

#56. Everyone is folding boxes. Andrew is folding boxes. If the entire job were to fold boxes people would scream. They would fold, and sometimes scream, existentially, then be dragged into a field and beaten into a paste. Sometimes there would be a killing rampage.

Tao Lin

#57. PRO TIP: IF YOU'RE SAD AND ALONE IN THE PLACE YOU LIVE THEN YOU GO TO ANOTHER PLACE YOU WILL STILL BE SAD AND ALONE WHEN YOU COME BACK

Tao Lin

#58. Lately, they were always reassuring each other that nothing was wrong; and probably it was true - life wasn't supposed to be incredible, after all. Life wasn't some incredible movie. Life was all the movies, ever, happening at once. There were good ones, bad ones, some went straight to video.

Tao Lin

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

Laozi

#60. The eye of Ego to the eye of Tao

Ilchi Lee

#61. When the court is arrayed in splendor, The fields are full of weeds, And the granaries are empty. Some wear gorgeous clothes, Carry sharp swords, And indulge in food and drink; They have more possessions than they can use. They are robber barons. This is certainly not the way of Tao.

Lao-Tzu

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

Terence McKenna

#63. The Spirit Tower has its guardian, but unless it understands who its guardian is, it cannot be guarded.

Zhuangzi

#64. And perhaps this is what Tukten knows - that the journey to Dolpo, step by step and day by day, is the Jewel in the Heart of the Lotus, the Tao, the Way, the Path, but no more so than small events of days at home.

Peter Matthiessen

#65. My publisher had mailed [Bret Easton Ellis] Richard Yates. And when I talked to him he said he had read all my prose books. And he said something like, "You got a lot of mileage out of Dakota Fanning."

Tao Lin

#66. Whenever there is a man of Tao his statements will look absurd. They are, because they don't fit in with your mind.

Osho

#67. Emptiness appears barren
yet is infinite fullness

Lao-Tzu

#68. Mind is knowledge, meditation is non-knowledge. Mind knows, meditation experiences. Mind can only give you a certain acquaintance but not the taste. If you want the taste of the Tao you have to move to no-mind, to Meditation.

Rajneesh

#69. Regarding drugs: just the existence of drugs seems troubling to me.

Tao Lin

#70. I am happiest when I clear my mind and allow the world around me to reteach me what I thought I already knew.

Vironika Tugaleva

#71. Who can enjoy enlightenment and remain indifferent to suffering in the world? This is not in keeping with the Way. Only those who increase their service along with their understanding can be called men and women of Tao.

Laozi

#72. I think Bret Easton Ellis has said that he doesn't completely identify with his characters. And I think he has referred to them as immoral before.

Tao Lin

#73. Breath is the power behind all things ... I breathe in and know that good things will happen.

Tao Porchon-Lynch

#74. As a child, she'd always had what she imagined were fascinating thoughts, but didn't ever say them. Once, as a little girl, at recess, she thought that if she ran very fast at a pole and then caught it and swung quickly around, part of her would keep going, and she would become two girls.

Tao Lin

#75. Peace is our original state

Lao-Tzu

#76. For me art is a spontaneous journey on the crest of the Tao's wave,

David Jay Brown

#77. The nameless is the beginning of Heaven and Earth. The named is the mother of all things.

Laozi

#78. My face always looks bored or depressed. It's not an accurate impression.

Tao Lin

#79. There is something obscure which is complete before heaven and earth arose; tranquil, quiet, standing alone without change, moving without peril. It could be the mother of everything. Not knowing its name, I call it Tao.

Laozi

#80. Open wide your heart and accept all the experiences of life. Don't let any moment go half-lived. Live with greatness even in moments of sadness and pain. It is no shame to trip and fall as you walk the path of life. Just get up and continue on your way.

Ilchi Lee

#81. Who acts in stillness finds stillness in his life.

Lao-Tzu

#82. Fucked people, great weather.

Tao Lin

#83. If a context and a goal is defined I could say if it's good or bad. But overall I don't view things as good or bad. So I'm like a robot or computer in that sense. So maybe that's why people don't think they know me when they read my writing.

Tao Lin

#84. There is nothing we cannot do if we harness the power within us.

Tao Porchon-Lynch

#85. I remember when I saw 'X-Men' the first time, I was living in England as an exchange student, and my first boyfriend, who's an Englishman, made me watch the movie ... He was very jealous that I liked Hugh Jackman so much.

Tao Okamoto

#86. I don't actually enjoy parties or relationships, I just like the idea that I could maybe be in either of those things

Tao Lin

#87. I like reading books where people with a lot of money use it to do whatever they want. Like stay in expensive hotels and do whatever drugs they want and fly wherever they want.

Tao Lin

#88. Instead of trying to be a mountain, teaches the ancient Tao Te Ching, "Be the valley of the universe."4 In this way, you are restored to wholeness and so "all things will come to you.

Eckhart Tolle

#89. Amoeba ass is so hot.

Tao Lin

#90. Man takes his law from the Earth; the Earth takes its law from Heaven; Heaven takes its law from the Tao. The law of the Tao is its being what it is.

Lao-Tzu

#91. That's my dream: one day, I want to standing on the stage on Broadway. I sing; my dancing is terrible, but I can be trained. That's my dream. That's something I really want to work on.

Tao Okamoto

#92. The Great Tao flows everywhere, to the left and to the right, all things depend on it to exist, and it does not abandon them. To its accomplishments it lays no claims. It loves and nourished all things, but does not lord it over them.

Laozi

#93. When there is no desire, all things are at peace

Laozi

#94. At a purely formal level, one could call probability theory the study of measure spaces with total measure one, but that would be like calling number theory the study of strings of digits which terminate.

Terence Tao

#95. Love melts the hardest hearts
Enters between the cracks

Rick Julian

#96. My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.

Tao Lin

#97. I was delivering pizzas at Domino's. I was 17 maybe. I liked it a lot. Just driving in the nice weather and listening to music.

Tao Lin

#98. Thousands of years from now they will use my fossil remains as an example of a mistake in the evolutionary process

Tao Lin

#99. When we can lay hold of the Tao of old to direct the things of the present day, and are able to know it as it was of old in the beginning, this is called (unwinding) the clue of Tao.

Lao-Tzu

#100. Sad things are beautiful only from a distance
therefore you just want to get away from them
from a distance of one hundred and thirty years
... i'm going to distance myself until the world is beautiful

Tao Lin