Top 92 Wei Quotes
#1. The more profound the stillness, the deeper the perception.
- Master Wei
Priest of the K'un Lun
Joseph J. Bailey
#2. 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
#3. Slingerland explains that Chinese philosophers like Confucius, Lao Tse, Zhuangzi, and a few others were concerned with accessing a state called Wu-Wei, pronounced "ooh-way." This is a state of spontaneous flow.
Anonymous
#4. Observing is not the same as experiencing.' Li Wei gestures angrily at my stump. 'You sit there and judge others from a safe distance every day. You assume because you watch us, you understand us. But you don't.
Richelle Mead
#5. In the action of no-action (wu-wei), a cardinal aspect of the true creative process is set forth. In wu-wei, the mind is silenced and the work is allowed to express itself.
John Daido Loori
#6. A monk asked Ts'ui-wei, "For what reason did the First Patriarch come from the West?" Ts'ui-wei answered, "Pass me that chin-rest." As soon as the monk passed it, Ts'ui-wei hit him with it.20
Alan W. Watts
#7. But when I reach the edge of the
crowd gathered for the ceremony, I understand what has really drawn me here.
Li Wei.
Richelle Mead
#8. Dare to realize your dreams. Dare to dream your reality.
- Master Wei
Priest of the K'un Lun
Joseph J. Bailey
#9. The first mover is the mind.
- Master Wei
Priest of the K'un Lun
Joseph J. Bailey
#10. Wei is like an enigma wrapped in a puzzle hidden in the most intricate maze of the world
Michele Amitrani
#11. A follower of the Way (Tao) loses something each day. Loss after loss until arriving at Non Action (Wu Wei).
Laozi
#12. Wei cleared his throat and said, "Have you heard the saying 'The wise adapt themselves to circumstances, as water molds itself to the pitcher'? It seems I've been the pitcher most of my life. I've forgotten how to be fluid. It feels as if I'm finally learning now," he said.
Gail Tsukiyama
#13. Why aren't you happy? It's because ninety-nine percent of everything you do, and think, and say, is for yourself -- and there isn't one.
Wei Wu Wei
#14. All the evil in the world, and all the unhappiness, comes from the I-concept.
Wei Wu Wei
#15. To attract people naturally, effortlessly, we need only follow the true prompting of our hearts.
Wu Wei
#16. Never forget, what your looking for is what is looking.
Wei Wu Wei
#17. It is true that we are in charge of our imaginations, and by using them to imagine wonderful futures for ourselves, and by acting on that basis, it will follow, unerringly, that for us, it will be so.
Wu Wei
#18. As long as there is a 'you' doing or not-doing, thinking or not-thinking, 'meditating' or 'not-meditating' you are no closer to home than the day you were born.
Wei Wu Wei
#19. People of true understanding nourish sages and through them, nourish the whole world.
Wu Wei
#20. Spontaneity is being present in the present.
Wei Wu Wei
#21. Look rather at the teachings of history, true history, not the history written by Party hacks: genuine democracy, the only valid democracy, is nourished with the blood of martyrs and with the blood of tyrants.
Wei Jingsheng
#22. Do not mistake the pointing finger for the moon.
Wei Wu Wei
#23. Doing nothing can sometimes be the most effective form of action.
Kevin Kwan
#24. Are we not wasps who spend all day in a fruitless attempt to traverse a window-pane - while the other half of the window is wide open?
Wei Wu Wei
#25. Why are you unhappy?
Because 99.9 percent of everything you think, and of everything you do, is for yourself - and there isn't one.
Wei Wu Wei
#26. The saint is a man who disciplines his ego. The sage is a man who rids himself of his ego.
Wei Wu Wei
#27. THIS which is seeking is THAT which is sought,
and THAT which is sought is THIS which is seeking.
Wei Wu Wei
#28. The sea was no stranger to the rock on the beach. The sea came often to the rock, rushing up wetly against its warm grey, and always as it swept away it took an infinitesimal part of the rock with it. The rock had known the waves for a long time, and learned it was in its nature to erode.
Chew Chia Shao Wei
#29. Tiago had heard of what some called the 'human database' or 'omnilogos', but nothing could have prepared him for this.
Michele Amitrani
#30. A new home by a gap in the Meng wall; Of the old trees, a few gnarled willows are left. Those who come in the future, who will they be, Grieving in vain for what others had before?
Wang Wei
#32. Transcendence implies the surpassing of two things, and the consequent attainment of a third thing. But there are no 'things' in reality, of any kind whatever: there is only the thing-in-itself, its suchness, which is Reality, revealed when the illusory dualism of inexistent qualities is dissolved.
Wei Wu Wei
#33. In order to be effective truth must penetrate like an arrow - and that is likely to hurt.
Wei Wu Wei
#34. Please pray & wish me well (in hearing session). All I want is to clear my name and return to the badminton.
Lee Chong Wei
#35. Wise men don't judge: They seek to understand.
Wei Wu Wei
#36. The notion that human life has greater value than any other form of life is both unjustifiable and arrogant.
Wei Wu Wei
#37. The practice of meditation is represented by the three monkeys, who cover their eyes, ears and mouths so as to avoid the phenomenal world.
Wei Wu Wei
#38. There is no mystery whatever - only inability to perceive the obvious.
Wei Wu Wei
#39. Past and Future are a duality of which Present is the reality. The now-moment alone is eternal and real.
Wei Wu Wei
#40. O Day after day we can't help growing older.
Year after year spring can't help seeming younger.
Come let's enjoy our winecup today,
Nor pity the flowers fallen.
Wang Wei
#41. Elder Lian has lectured us many times on proper behavior between boys and
girls, darkly warning of how "dangerous feelings" can arise. I'm not that worried
about any feelings arising, though. They're already here, no matter how I try to
suppress them.
Richelle Mead
#42. Are you still thinking, looking, living, as from an imaginary phenomenal centre?
As long as you do that you can never recognise your freedom.
Wei Wu Wei
#43. To lead people or influence them, we must first align ourselves with them. By identifying with individuals or groups, we gain their confidence and can then lead them into a higher understanding or direct them to the achievement of lofty goals.
Wu Wei
#44. It is only with total humility, and in absolute stillness of mind that we can know what indeed we are.
Wei Wu Wei
#45. To slow time down, practice enjoying the moment. It is where we spend our entire lives.
Wu Wei
#46. The laws of history tell us that only when the old is gone can the new take its place.
Wei Jingsheng
#47. The autumn hill gathers the remaining light, A flying bird chases after its companion. The green color is bright And brings me into the moment, like a sunset mist that has no fixed place.
Wang Wei
#48. How could sufferings be relieved through purification? To know the Path is to get lost at the ford. Indeed, sickness comes from worldly love And poverty begins with the pursuit of greed.
Wang Wei
#49. Impossible is only a possibility that has not yet been discovered
Michele Amitrani
#50. What is your trouble? Mistaken identity.
Wei Wu Wei
#51. A man who is seeking for realization is not only going around searching for his spectacles without realizing that they are on his nose all the time, but also were he not actually looking through them he would not be able to see what he is looking for!
Wei Wu Wei
#52. The seeing of Truth cannot be dualistic (a 'thing' seen). It cannot be seen by a see-er, or via a see-er. There can only be a seeing which itself is Truth.
Wei Wu Wei
#53. Disciples and devotees ... what are most of them doing? Worshipping the teapot instead of drinking the tea!
Wei Wu Wei
#54. There was something vaguely sad about the rock. It was as old as it looked, standing weathered and lonely amidst the stretch of sand, and its thoughts were quiet as it listened to the waves.
Chew Chia Shao Wei
#55. It's true, after all. Saemangeum City is a gift few people understand
Michele Amitrani
#56. We imagine that waking-life is real and that dream-life is unreal, but there does not seem to be any evidence for this belief.
Wei Wu Wei
#58. Reintegration with Nature, which we are, is the recovery of spontaneity.
Wei Wu Wei
#59. Look in the perfumes of flowers and of nature for peace of mind and joy of life.
Wang Wei
#60. Doing or not doing something - they are similar. Both involve an action and sincerity.
CLAMP
#61. A quiet-hearted person awakes with a smile on his lips and an eagerness in his heart for the day ahead.
Wu Wei
#63. Play your part in the comedy, but don't identify yourself with your role.
Wei Wu Wei
#64. Democracy is not a mere consequence, a certain stage in the development of society. It is the condition on which the survival of productive forces depends.
Wei Jingsheng
#65. What we desire, what we work for, or what we seek after, are those things that merely lead us along the paths of our lives.
Wu Wei
#66. It is not for us to search but to remain still, to achieve Immobility not Action.
Wei Wu Wei
#67. The qualities we possess should never be a matter for satisfaction, but the qualities we have discarded.
Wei Wu Wei
#68. Do you realise that when you give a schilling to a beggar you are giving it to yourself?Do you realise that when you help a dog over a stile you yourself are being helped?Do you realise when you kick a man when he is down, you are kicking yourslef?Give him another kick, you deserve it!
Wei Wu Wei
#69. We do not possess an 'ego.' We are possessed by the idea of one.
Wei Wu Wei
#70. Seated alone by shadowy bamboos,
I strum my lyre and laugh aloud;
None know that I am here, deep in the woods;
Only the bright moon comes to shine on me.
Wang Wei
#71. Every plan in which we participate has one constant, ourselves. Not that we are always the same, but that we are always part of the plan. All else comes and goes: friends, parents, possessions, conditions, situations, and associates, leaving only us, ourselves.
Wu Wei
#72. Doctrines, scriptures, sutras, essays, are not to be regarded as systems to be followed. They merely contribute to understanding. They should be for us a source of stimulation, and nothing more ... Adopted, rather than used as a stimulus, they are a hindrance
Wei Wu Wei
#73. We ourselves are not an illusory part of Reality; rather are we Reality itself illusorily conceived.
Wei Wu Wei
#74. To be a stranger in a strange land: Whenever one feasts, one thinks of one's brother twice as much as before, There where my brother far away is ascending, The dogwood is flowering, and a man is missed.
Wang Wei
#75. ...Fei Xiaoton, the University of Chicago - trained Chinese sociologist, once observed, this nation is "a land without ghosts," a place where people are so busy with promises of progress that they have forgotten where they come from and who their ancestors were...
John Kuo Wei Tchen
#76. The writer of these lines has nothing whatsoever to teach anyone; his words are just his contribution to our common discussion of what must inevitably be for us the most important subject which could be discussed by sentient beings.
Wei Wu Wei
#77. I am 54 years old and happily single. In addition to my nuclear family, I have a close circle of friends. Most of my friends are men. But my reputation is such that their female partners would never consider me a threat.
Geraldine Lee Wei Ling
#78. Living should be perpetual and universal benediction.
Wei Wu Wei
#79. Realisation is a matter of becoming conscious of that which is already realised.
Wei Wu Wei
#80. As long as one accepts 'time' tacitly as such
he is dreaming a drea, not living a life.
Wei Wu Wei
#81. It is less what one is that should matter, than what one is not.
Wei Wu Wei
#82. Walking on willow tree roads by a river dappled with peach blossoms, I look for spring light, but am everywhere lost. Birds fly up and scatter floating catkins. A ponderous wave of flowers sags the branches.
Wang Wei
#83. The path that one person follows is not the correct path for any other person. Each of us must walk his own path to enlightenment - that is the way.
Wu Wei
#84. Change is like a river: nothing is the same, even for an instant. Everything is continually moving through the six stages of change: about to come into being, beginning, expanding, approaching maximum potential, peaking, and finally, passing its peak and flowing into its new condition.
Wu Wei
#85. The only real service we can render to that which we perceive and interpret in phenomenal existence as 'others' is by awakening to universal consciousness ourselves.
Wei Wu Wei
#86. If we dare to win, we should also dare to lose
Lee Chong Wei
#87. The master sees beyond what is obvious. He sees the unseen, feels the unfelt, and hears the unheard. He looks below the surface for what is hidden and so finds the great heartbeat of the Universe. He smiles, knowing it is his heartbeat, your heartbeat, our heartbeat.
Wu Wei
#88. To have anything we want, we need only raise our level of consciousness to the level of consciousness where what we want exists.
Wu Wei
#89. What do you have to do? Pack your bags, Go to the station without them, Catch the train, And leave your self behind.
Wei Wu Wei
#90. A traveler s thoughts in the night Wander in a thousand miles of dreams.
Wang Wei
#91. I am a collector of hopes and peregrine truths, a shepherd of thoughts, ideas, projects and dreams too important not to be realized. I'm an abstract concept that has no body, no smell, no boundaries, no shape and no color. I am the omnilogos.
Michele Amitrani
#92. We must ask the high cadres ... When you suppressed the rights of others to express freely their political views, did you secure your own?
Wei Jingsheng
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