177 Quotes About Tao


  • Author Thomas Cleary
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    Having one's will on the Tao is finding joy in the Tao; when one delights in the Tao, then one can practice the Tao.

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  • Author Martin Palmer
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    How is it that we have the Tao so obscured that we have to distinguish between true and false?

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  • Author Thomas Cleary
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    The gateway to the Tao is open - anyone can come in. If you know how to change directions, the goal is near at hand.

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  • Author Sun Tzu
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    The tao is the way of humanity and justice; 'laws' are regulations and institutions. Those who excel in war first cultivate their own humanity and justice and maintain their laws and institution. By these means they make their governments invincible.

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  • Author Lao Tzu (author) Yi Ping Ong (Translator)
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    Practice emptiness to the extreme.Keep stillness whole.Myriad things act in concert. I therefore watch their return. All things flourish, and each returns to its root.Return to the root is called Quietude.Quietude is called Way of Life.Way of Life is called Constant.Acting without knowing this constant can be harmful.Understanding this Constant is called receptivity, which is impartial.Impartiality is Kingship.Kingship is Heaven.Heaven is the Tao.Though you lose the body, you do not die.

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  • Author Leland Lewis
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    All is One. Infinitely beyond words, religions, or fixated belief structures; and beyond that; and beyond the beyond. Infinitely onward and inward as the Oneness of the All. Call it what you will, believe or disbelieve. The infinite Tao remains unaffected...

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