Tao Quotes

Master Dongguo asked Zhuangzi, "This thing called the Way - where does it exist?"Zhuangzi said, "The...

We are born from a quiet sleep, and we die to a calm awakening

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

So it is said, for him who understands Heavenly joy, life is the working of Heaven; death is the tra...

It comes out from no source, it goes back in through no aperture. It has reality yet no place where ...

Memory: Recognizing the value of an alert mind and an alert memory, I will encourage mine to become ...

For every one pupil who needs to be guarded from a weak excess of sensibility there are three who ne...

The way out is through the door. Why is it that no one will use this method?

Sit still with me in the shade of these green trees, which have no weightier thought than the wither...

Yin and yang are the left and right hands of the Infinite — creator, destroyer, and reproducer of ev...

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

Let go of rousing speechand identification with thoughtsUntil your endyou will never be jaded

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

Revere the unity of all-that-iscarry out your daily activities with compassion;if you do not limit y...

With those who are kindthe sage is kindWith those who are not kindthe sage is also kindbecause the w...

Material and infinite are inseparableAppreciating their interconnectednessis the gateway to understa...

Choose food, clothing, and shelter that accords with nature.Rely on your own body for transportation...

One gains by losing and loses by gaining.

Rushing into action, you fail.Trying to grasp things, you lose them.Forcing a project to completion,...

He who is in harmony with the Taois like a newborn child.Its bones are soft, its muscles are weak,bu...

The key question, it seemed to him, was that of whether man was to obey Nature, or attempt to comman...

The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the ...