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Silver Lining Of Your Cloud
Life Quotes and Sayings
Tao
Return is the movement of the Tao.
Yielding is the way of the Tao.
~Tao Te Ching
If you want to be whole, let yourself be partial. If you want to become
straight, let yourself be crooked. If you want to become full, let yourself
become empty. If you want to be reborn, let yourself die. If you want to be
given everything, give everything up. ~Lao Tzu
Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you
realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you. ~Lao Tzu
Nothing can bring you happiness but yourself. ~Chuang Tzu
The world is ruled by letting things take their course. ~Lao-Tzu
In the pursuit of knowledge, every day something is added. In the practice of
the Tao, every day something is dropped. ~Lao Tzu
Act without doing; work without effort. ~Lao Tzu
We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet
our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually
pass away. ~Chuang Tzu
From wonder into wonder existence opens. ~Lao Tzu
We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we
want. ~Lao Tzu
An ancient gnarled tree:
Too fibrous for a logger’s saw,
Too twisted to fit a carpenter’s square,
Outlasts the whole forest.
~Deng Ming-Dao
If you want to nourish a bird, you should let it live any way it chooses.
Creatures differ because they have different likes and dislikes. Therefore the
sages never require the same ability from all creatures. . . concepts of right
should be founded on what is suitable. The true saint leaves wisdom to the
ants, takes a cue from the fishes, and leaves willfulness to the sheep.
~Chuang Tzu
Flow with whatever may happen, and let your mind be free: Stay centered by
accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate. ~Chuang Tzu
One who has attained the Tao is master of herself, and the universe is
dissolved for her. Throw her in the company of the noisy and the dirty, and
she will be like a lotus flower growing from muddy water, touched by it, yet
unstained. ~T’u Lung
How can the divine Oneness be seen? In beautiful forms, breathtaking
wonders, awe-inspiring miracles? The Tao is not obliged to present itself in
this way. If you are willing to be lived by it, you will see it everywhere, even
in the most ordinary things. ~Lao Tzu
All the fish needs to do is get lost in the water. All man needs to do is get lost
in the Tao.~Chuang Tzu
Giving to others selflessly, radiating light throughout the world and
illuminating our own darkness, your virtue becomes a sanctuary for yourself
and all beings. ~Lao Tzu
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.
~Lao Tzu
The wise man knows that it is better to sit on the banks of a remote mountain
stream than to be emperor of the whole world. ~Chuang Tzu
When your mind is empty of prejudices you can see the Tao. When your heart
is empty of desires you can follow the Tao. ~Master Lu
Without the tao,
Kindness and compassion are replaced by law and justice;
Faith and trust are supplanted by ritual and ceremony.
~Lao Tzu
What we mean by Tao is the way or course of Nature. This way has nothing
good or bad, it is a mere flowing of things following the development and
decline attributes of the moment. ~Jhian Yang
We hammer wood for a house, but it is the inner space that makes it liveable.
~Lao Tzu
All men desire to free themselves solely from death;
they do not know how to free themselves from life.
~Lao Tzu
The Tao that can be told,
Is not the eternal tao.
The name that can be named,
Is not the eternal name.
~Lao Tzu
Happiness is the abscence of the striving for happiness. ~Chuang-Tzu
If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the
mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror of the
universe, the speculum of all creation. ~Chuang Tzu
Take time to listen to what is said without words,
to obey the law too subtle to be written,
to worship the unnameable and,
to embrace the unformed.
~Lao-Tzu
If you scramble about in search of inner peace, you will lose your inner
peace. ~Lao-Tzu
Heaven and Earth last for ever.
Why do Heaven and Earth last for ever?
They are unborn, so ever living.
The sage stays behind, thus he is ahead.
He is detached, thus at one with all.
Through selfless action, he attains fulfillment.
~Lao Tzu
Do you think you can make the world a better place?
I do not think you can.
It is already perfect.
~Lao Tzu
The way to use life is to do nothing through acting,
The way to use life is to do everything through being.
~Lao Tzu
When you are one with loss, the loss is experienced willingly. ~Lao Tzu
To hold you must first open your hand, and let go. ~Lao Tzu
Let me tell you about the ultimate Tao. It is here, enshrined within us. ~Lu
Tung Pin
The truest sayings are paradoxical. ~Lao Tzu
The Master views the parts with compassion,
because he understands the whole.
His constant practice is humility.
He doesn’t glitter like a jewel
but lets himself be shaped by the Tao,
as rugged and common as a stone.
~Tao Te Ching
The further one goes
The less one knows.
~Lao Tzu
So the unwanting soul sees what’s hidden,
and the ever-wanting soul sees only what it wants.
~Lao Tzu
Stop trying to control. Let go of fixed plans and concepts, and the world will
govern itself. ~Lao Tzu
To find the Tao, there is nowhere you need to search.
If it is not inside you, it is not the Tao.
~Confucius
Hope and fear are both phantoms that arise
from thinking of the self. When we don’t see
the self as self, what do we have to fear?
~Lao-Tzu
