Tao Quotes

Inspiration for Life

What is Tao?

It's a way of looking at the world. Its not a religion or science. But a very useful and ancient philosophy. Use it with the easy meditation techniques to deal with stress.

Tao is all about our relationship with nature. With the world around us. Sometimes it can seem a little obscure -not very practical. And maybe too passive for our modern world.

But its really just the opposite...

What does it mean for you?

It's a guide for living. If you follow Tao

• You let events unfold naturally.
• You don't force things.
• You are content
• You don't need to look outside yourself for satisfaction.
• You are at peace.

Seems a lot of ask doesn't it?. But Taoism has been around for over 2,000 years. And is behind most eastern philosophy.

Have a look at these quotes. See how they help you.....(Clicking on the link scrolls down this page)

• Keep it simple
• Find peace
• See your connectedness with the world.
• Find satisfaction
• Live without effort

Then why not try one of the easy meditation techniques.

Tao Quotes 1:

What is Tao?

Look at it but you cannot see it! Its name is Formless.

Listen to it but you cannot hear it! Its name is Soundless.

Grasp at it but you cannot get it! Its name is incorporeal.

Tao Quotes 2:

Patience

"Do you have the patience to wait till your mind settles and the water is clear? Can you remain unmoving till the right action arises by itself.

Tao Quotes 3:

Keeping it Simple

Tao Quotes 4:

Finding Peace

He who keeps the Tao does not want to be full. But precisely because he is never full, He can always remain like a hidden sprout, And does not rush to early ripening.

Attain to utmost Emptiness. Cling single-heartedly to interior peace. While all things are stirring together I only contemplate the Return. For flourishing as they do, Each of them returns to its root.

To return to the root is to find peace. To find peace is to fulfil one's destiny. Top fulfil one's destiny is to be constant. To know the Constant is called Insight.

If one does not know the Constant, One runs blindly into disasters. If one knows the Constant, One can understand all and embrace all.

Tao Quotes 5:

Connectedness

Ordinary men hate solitude. But the Master makes use of it, embracing his aloneness, realizing he is one with the whole universe.

Tao Quotes 6:

Satisfaction

The heavy is the root of the light. The unmoved is the source of all movement.

Thus the Master travels all day without leaving home. However splendid the views, she stays serenely in herself.

Why should the lord of the country flit about like a fool? If you let yourself be blown to and fro, you loose touch with your root. If you let restlessness move you, you lose touch with who you are.

Tao Quotes 5:

Live without Effort

Tao abides in non-action yet nothing is left undone. If kings and lords observed this, the ten thousand things would develop naturally. If they still desired to act they would return to the simplicity of formless substance. Without form there is no desire. Without desire there is tranquillity. And in this way all things would be at peace.

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