Taoism Quotes - Page 30

• The best fighter is never angry.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Yoga

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• The man who has some respect for his person keeps his carcass out of sight, hides himself as perfectly as he can.

  Zhuangzi

  Respect, Men, Sight

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• A climb of eight hundred feet starts where the foot stands.

  Laozi

  Eight, Feet, Hundred

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• Who can wait in stillness while the mud settles?

  Laozi

  Waiting, Mud, Settling

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• A tree as wide as a man's embrace grows from a tiny shoot.

  Laozi

  Men, Tree, Tiny

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• Who can rest until the moment of action?

  Laozi

  Action, Moments

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• Racing through the field and hunting make the mind wild.

  Laozi

  Hunting, Racing, Mind

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• Solve it before it happens. Order it before chaos emerges.

  Laozi

  Order, Chaos, Solve

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• Those who have the courage to dare will perish. Those who have the courage not to dare will live.

  Laozi

  Dare

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• Pursue without interfering.

  Laozi

  Pursue, Interfere

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• Taking things lightly must lead to big difficulties.

  Laozi

  Bigs, Difficulty

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• Male and female are the first things we learn because they represent the polarity of existence.

  Frederick Lenz

  Males, Female, Firsts

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• We really have no choice in the matter. We are given a description of the world that is much more potent and much deeper than you might realize.

  Frederick Lenz

  Choices, World, Might

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• Taoism is the way of water. The most frequent element or symbol refered to in Lao Tzu's wrtings is the symbol of water.

  Frederick Lenz

  Water, Laos, Lao Tzu

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• Before perception, before a preceiver, existence was - is. This is the consciousness that we refer to as nirvana, God, eternity.

  Frederick Lenz

  Perception, Consciousness, Eternity

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• When it reaches a blockage, water find the easiest path around the blockage, or it continues to assemble, and flows over the blockage.

  Frederick Lenz

  Water, Flow, Path

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• The strongest factor in conditioning is sex, in the sense that the first thing that a person is really taught is whether they are male or female.

  Frederick Lenz

  Sex, Males, Female

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• The primary quality that Lao Tzu seems to emobdy is humility, which is the image of water - seeking the common level of existence.

  Frederick Lenz

  Humility, Water, Quality

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• Gradually, you were given a description of the world, a way of seeing, which is largely sexual.

  Frederick Lenz

  World, Way, Description

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• Taoism means streching your being, becoming both a man and a woman and joining within yourself, to be the heavens themselves, to stretch your awareness beyond the breaking point until all opposites are reconciled within yourself.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mean, Men, Opposites

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• A net set up to catch fish may snare a duck; a mantis hunting an insect may itself be set upon by a sparrow. Machinations are hidden within machinations; changes arise beyond changes. So how can wit and cleverness be relied upon?

  Zicheng Hong

  Hunting, Ducks, May

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• Enlightenment comes through the feminine side of the being.

  Frederick Lenz

  Enlightenment, Sides, Feminine

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• 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.

  Laozi

  Heaven, Selfless, Sage

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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• There is no way to measure it ... because there's no one to measure it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Way

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• Everything is part of one web, one matrix of existence, beyond discussion. This is our true self in its undifferentiated form.

  Frederick Lenz

  Self, Form, Existence

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