Tao Wisdom Quotes

The spectrum of possibilities is vast and our souls long to incorporate as many as they can... We are in a constant process of learning how to think, behave, or act understanding the manifestations of Tao, the manifestation of Qi within us. ~ Natasa Nuit Pantovic

If you dance, you'll feel more joyful. Just thinking isn't going to make you feel better. Think about how joyful you'll feel as you dance. Don't repeat the foolishness of putting off dancing as you debate whether dance will really bring you joy. We feel joy as soon as we dance. Everything is like that. ~ Ilchi Lee

I am happiest when I clear my mind and allow the world around me to reteach me what I thought I already knew. ~ Vironika Tugaleva

The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao. The name that can be named is not the eternal name. The Tao is both named and nameless. As nameless it is the origin of all things; as named it is the Mother of 10,000 things. Ever desireless, one can see the mystery; ever desiring, one sees only the manifestations. And the mystery itself is the doorway to all understanding. ~ Wayne W. Dyer

The flame that burns Twice as bright burns half as long. ~ Lao-Tzu

In the pursuit of Knowledge, every day something is added. In the practice of the Way, every day something is dropped. Less and less do you need to force things, until finally you arrive at non-action. When nothing is done, nothing is left undone. ~ Martha Beck

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

If you try to change it, you will ruin it. Try to hold it, and you will lose it. ~ Lao-Tzu

When you look at the clouds they are not symmetrical. They do not form fours and they do not come along in cubes, but you know at once that they are not a mess. [...] They are wiggly but in a way, orderly, although it is difficult for us to describe that kind of order. Now, take a look at yourselves. You are all wiggly. [...] We are just like clouds, rocks and stars. Look at the way the stars are arranged. Do you criticize the way the stars are arranged? ~ Alan W. Watts

Observe how endings become beginnings. ~ Laozi

To attain knowledge, add things every day. To attain wisdom, remove things every day. Lao-Tzu ~ Richard Koch

To understand the limitation of things, desire them. ~ Lao-Tzu

Who am I? is not a question about your job or bank balance. Don't be satisfied with rational or formal answers. Ask yourself seriously and honestly, again and again, and, sooner or later, you'll hear the voice of your soul. The true answer will come to you, breaking through the thick curtain of your ego, which is made up of your name, job, personality, and similar things. ~ Ilchi Lee

We do not "come into" this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean "waves," the universe "peoples." Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of nature, a unique action of the total universe. ~ Alan W. Watts

I would rather have a good education and no money, than to have a fortune and be ignorant. ~ George Armstrong Custer

Life is full of something less and something more.
Somethings can be expressed, somethings can be shared.
When something is there, feeling something more is required.
When everything is there, feeling something less.
While Looking for something, missing many more things.
While Looking for missing things, losing something already present.
Why can't we stop looking for something?
Feeling something more or something less is within us. ~ Venu CV

One of the disadwantages of school and learning, he thought dreamily, was that the mind seemed to have the tendency too see and represent all things as though they were flat and had only two dimensions. This, somehow, seemed to render all matters of intellect shallow and worthless ... ~ Hermann Hesse

The difference between what is neurosis and what is wisdom is very hard to perceive, because somehow the energy underlying both of them is the same. ~ Pema Chodron

When I see a dancing butterfly,
When I see a half blooming flower,
Their eager wish to make this world happy,
My mind dances with joy,
My soul emerges in happiness. ~ Debasish Mridha

Unjustified ambition kills value,
Kills someone else's desire to fly,
Cuts their wings, sucks their air.
If there is nothing else, it eats its own life. ~ Dejan Stojanovic

Apart from Love, Wisdom ceases to be Wisdom. ~ Michael Lee

Founders v. Bush brings the wisdom and eloquence of the Founding Fathers back to the people, while unmasking the fraudulent PR machine that is corrupting their words and stealing our legacy. ~ Jim Hightower

A person's reason for doing someone a good turn matters as much as the good turn itself. ~ Michael Ende

To be a success, first dream, then visualize and then act. ~ Debasish Mridha

The greatest wisdom is indistinguishable from the greatest folly. ~ Marty Rubin

Know the word of God not in order that by doing so you might be saved; know it rather so that unlike the many you are not easily deceived. You may find that, evidently, a great many of the so-called novel ideas of the present were made without a clue that 'God', if you will, already laid profound discourse on or against them ages ago: no man has gone against God in such a way that God, from the beginning, did not already expect him to. Then, insofar as this, you will remain clear in that it is not at all that the Christian should be against newness; quite the opposite really - for a major point of Christianity is about one constantly being made new in Christ - it is only that many people are not actually bringing true newness to the table, and this is precisely because they do not first apply (or let alone even know) the wisdom of old. ~ Criss Jami

It was not that donors had no loyalty to each other, but they were not ashamed to betray a fellow donor. In its wisdom the Alliance promulgated the moral rules - the main one being one's duty to the Alliance. The Alliance was sacred - all else secondary. But not all donors - or citizens - bought into that. Many knew in their hearts there was more to life. ~ Cate Campbell Beatty

Without nothing, everything would be nothing. ~ Dejan Stojanovic

There is no greater wisdom than well to time the beginnings and onsets of things. ~ Francis Bacon

Life is a journey. Our whole life we are preparing for the journey, but never take the road. ~ Debasish Mridha

War?' The word held too much definition for three letters. ~ Shannon A. Thompson

Your thoughts will make you a victor or a victim. ~ Rob Liano

If you become the light of peace there will be no darkness of hatred. ~ Debasish Mridha

I would like to touch your soul and melt with your heart forever. I am sending my love, thoughts, and imagination for you as a believer. ~ Debasish Mridha

With wisdom all choices are made with Divine Intent. With compassion all choices are made with Love. Divine Inspiration comes through the heart. Through the mind comes the ability to manifest the inspiration in the physical. ~ Sharon Ellis

When all hopes are lost, only then does reality acquire that sharp focus that defines who we are and what we have become. ~ Greg Bear

No book on this planet can give you the description of terms like religion, spirituality, divinity unless you discover it within the realm of your own mind. ~ Abhijit Naskar

My burning question is this: what do I really want from life? Love, happiness, success, or all three? ~ Debasish Mridha

Once we admit that there is room for newness - that there are vastly more conceivable possibilities than realized outcomes - we must confront the fact that there is no special logic behind the world we inhabit, no particular justification for why things are the way they are. Any number of arbitrarily small perturbations along the way could have made the world as we know it turn out very differently. ~ Paul Romer

Divine mission.
Divine strength.
Divine accomplishment. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Always start your day with positive thoughts and attitude of gratitude. ~ Debasish Mridha

The ultimate decision about what is accepted as right and wrong will be made not by individual human wisdom but by the disappearance of the groups that have adhered to the "wrong" beliefs. ~ Friedrich August Von Hayek

Neither do the ignorant love wisdom or desire to become wise; for this is the grievous thing about ignorance, that those who are neither good nor beautiful think they are good enough, and do not desire that which they do not think they are lacking. ~ Plato

Libraries offer, for free, the wisdom of the ages
and sages
and, simply put, there's something for everyone inside. ~ Laura Bush