Category Quotations

Lao Tzu says: “The past has no power to stop you from being present now. Only your grievance about the past can do that. What is grievance? The baggage of old thought and emotion.”

Lao Tzu says: “The more morals and taboos there are, the more cruelty afflicts people; The more guns and knives there are, the more factions divide people; The more arts and skills there are, the more change obsoletes people; The…

Lao Tzu says: “The highest truth cannot be put into words. Therefore the greatest teacher has nothing to say. He simply gives himself in service, and never worries”

Lao Tzu says: “The ego is a monkey catapulting through the jungle: Totally fascinated by the realm of the senses, it swings from one desire to the next, one conflict to the next, one self-centered idea to the next. If…

Lao Tzu says: “Surrender yourself humbly; then you can be trusted to care for all things. Do not be concerned with loss or gain. Love the world as your own Self; then you can truly care for all things.”

Lao Tzu says: “Simply see that you are at the center of the universe, and accept all things and beings as parts of your infinite body. When you perceive that an act done to another is done to yourself, you…

Lao Tzu says: “Silence is a source of great strength.”

Lao Tzu says: “Shape clay into a vessel; It is the space within that makes it useful. Cut doors and windows for a room; It is the holes which make it useful. Therefore benefit comes from what is there; Usefulness…

Lao Tzu says: “One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him.”

Lao Tzu says: “Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.”