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Seeing the small is called clarity. -- Laozi
Embrace simplicity. Put others first. Desire little. -- Laozi
There is no greater disaster than discontent. -- Laozi
There is no greater misfortune than greed. -- Laozi
When nothing is done, nothing is left undone. -- Laozi
Abandon cleverness, discard profit, and thieves and robbers will disappear. -- Laozi
If you want to become full, let yourself be empty. -- Laozi
Be still like a mountain and flow like a great river. -- Laozi
The more laws that are written, the more criminals are produced. -- Laozi
People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge. -- Laozi
Can you step back from your own mind and thus understand all things? -- Laozi
In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. -- Laozi
Quiet your mind and stop judging and resisting and manipulating the natural way. -- Laozi
Goodness in words creates trust, goodness in thinking creates depth, goodness in giving creates love. -- Laozi
The sound man, immune as to a sacrifice of straw dogs, faces the passing human generations. -- Frederick Lenz
The nameless is the beginning of Heaven and Earth. The named is the mother of all things. -- Laozi
Approach your own inner life with a loving quality that accepts who you are without trying to change who you are. -- Laozi
Without the tao, Kindness and compassion are replaced by law and justice; Faith and trust are supplanted by ritual and ceremony. -- Laozi
The Master doesn't seek fulfillment. For only those who are not full are able to be used which brings the feeling of completeness. -- Laozi
I have three treasures that I cherish. The first is compassion. The second is moderation. The third is not claiming to be first in the world. -- Laozi
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
When you discard arrogance, complexity, and a few other things that get in the way, sooner or later you will discover that simple, childlike, and mysterious secret known to those of the Uncarved Block: Life is Fun. -- Benjamin Hoff
Why is the tao so valuable? Because it is everywhere, and everyone can use it. This is why those who seek will find, And those who reform will be forgiven; Why the good will be rewarded, And the thief who is cunning will escape. -- Laozi
The mark of a moderate man is freedom from his own ideas. Tolerant like the sky, all-pervading like sunlight, firm like a mountain, supple like a tree in the wind, he has no destination in view and makes use of anything life happens to bring his way. -- Laozi
Those who know don't talk. Those who talk don't know. Close your mouth, block off your senses, blunt your sharpness, untie your knots, soften your glare, settle your dust. This is the primal identity. Be like the Tao. It can't be approached or withdrawn from, benefited or harmed, honored or brought into disgrace. It gives itself up continually. That is why it endures. -- Laozi
Taoism is the gentle way. The path of least resistence. -- Frederick Lenz
Taoism shows us how to deal with life and death by realizing everything here is transitory but its substance is eternal: -- Frederick Lenz
Taoism extols the virtue of flexibility. What survives on earth is what effortlessly adapts to the changing environment and changing circumstances. -- Ernie J Zelinski
Taoism has no rules. It's a suggestion for preceiving life in its wholeness, without unnessary categorization, yet enjoying the beauty of categorization. -- Frederick Lenz
Taoism is the way of water. The most frequent element or symbol refered to in Lao Tzu's wrtings is the symbol of water. -- Frederick Lenz
Some people think Taoism means not doing anything, just going on with your life. That has little or nothing to do with Taoism. -- Frederick Lenz
Lao-tze's Taoism is the exhibition of a way or method of living which men should cultivate as the highest and purest development of their nature. -- James Legge
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
But the basic Taoism that we are concerned with here is simply a particular way of appreciating, learning from, and working with whatever happens in everyday life. -- Benjamin Hoff
But the basic Taoism that we are concerned with here is simply a particular way of appreciating, learning from, and working with whatever happens in everyday life." -- Benjamin Hoff
Among religions in this country which do not teach what would generally be considered a belief in the existence of God are Buddhism, Taoism, Ethical Culture, Secular Humanism and others. -- Hugo Black
If you are interested in Taoism, I would suggest that you read the Way of Life by Lao Tsu, the founder of Taoism. I personally prefer the Witter Brynner translation. -- Frederick Lenz
The essence of Taoism is really expressed by these few words. Taoism is the way of the child, the way of the fool, the way of someone who doesn't need to be noticed. -- Frederick Lenz
Lao Tsu found Taoism easy to reconcile withthe world of human beings, which is interesting because with all the nature imagery, one might think it was in some way antithetical to contempory life. -- Frederick Lenz
I was raised a Christian but have looked at other religions, some of the Eastern things. I was into Taoism for a while and Confucianism. Just different approaches and some have really stayed with me. -- Rick Springfield
"What's that?" the Unbeliever asked. "Wisdom from the Western Taoist,"I said. "It sounds like something from Winnie-the-Pooh ," he said. "It is," I said. "That's not about Taoism," he said. "Oh, yes it is," I said." -- Benjamin Hoff
Taoism means streching your being, becoming both a man and a woman and joining within yourself, to be the heavens themselves, to stretch your awareness beyond the breaking point until all opposites are reconciled within yourself. -- Frederick Lenz
The teachings of Osho, in fact, encompass many religions, but he is not defined by any of them. He is an illuminating speaker on Zen, Taoism, Tibetan Buddhism, Christianity and ancient Greek philosophy... and also a prolific author. -- Nevill Drury
Different Chinese philosophers, writing probably in 5-4 centuries B.C., presented some major ideas and a way of life that are nowadays known under the name of Taoism, the way of correspondence between man and the tendency or the course of natural world. -- Alan Watts
"¦the doctrinal differences between Hinduism and Buddhism and Taoism are not anywhere near as important as doctrinal differences among Christianity and Islam and Judaism. Holy wars are not fought over them because verbalized statements about reality are never presumed to be reality itself. -- Robert M. Pirsig
All of Chinese thinking - Confucianism, Taoism, as well as Buddhism - contains the idea that in the course of life, man will shape harmoniously those psychic and physical predispositions that he received as capital assets by unifying them and giving them form from within a center. -- Richard Wilhelm

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