Tuesday, August 13, 2013

Quotes by Lao Tzu

“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.” 

“Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know.” 

“When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.” 

“Time is a created thing. To say 'I don't have time,' is like saying, 'I don't want to.”

“Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing.” 

“He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.”


“Love is of all the passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart, and the senses.” 

“When goodness is lost there is morality.” 

“in the pursuit of knowledge: 
everyday something is added.
in the pursuit of enlightenment:
everyday something is dropped.” 

“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 from what is not there.” 

“Chanting is no more holy than listening to the murmur of a stream, counting prayer beads no more scared than simply breathing, religious robed no more spiritual than work clothes.” 


No comments:

Post a Comment

Making sense of it all

The last couple of months have been surreal for most of us - and nightmare to many others. People have lost loved ones, lost their liveliho...