Tao Te Ching

The Power of Goodness, the Wisdom Beyond Words
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Chuang Tzu

To act without needing a reason… to ride the current of what is – this is the primal virtue.

Chuang Tzu

Achievement is the beginning of failure. Fame is the beginning of disgrace.

Saraha

The whole world is tormented by words… Only as much as one is free from words does one really understand them.

Will (and Ariel) DurantScience is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
G. K. Chesterton

We are perishing for want of wonder, not for want of wonders.

Paul Carus

The same thing which in Lao-Tzu…is the Tao… is Spinoza’s cosmotheism is God as the eternal substance.

Carl Jung

Every statement about the transcendental ought to be avoided because it is invariably a laughable presumption on the part of the human mind, unconscious of its limitations.

William BlakeThe crow wished everything was black, the Owl, that everything was white.
Emily Dickinson

Inebriate of air – am I – and Debauchee of Dew.

Haruki Murakami

‘All you have to do is wait,’ I explained. ‘Sit tight and wait for the right moment, not try to change anything by force, just watch the drift of things… If you do that, you just naturally know what to do. But everyone’s always too busy. They’re too talented, their schedules are too full, they’re too interested in themselves…

Mark Twain

‘Well, everybody does it that way, Huck.’ ‘Tom, I am not everybody.’

Chéng Xuanying

‘Without traveling’ means to know without depending on previous or external experience… ‘without trying’ means to focus the spirit on the tranquility that excels at making things happen.

Voltaire, François-Marie Arouet

If religion no longer gives birth to civil wars, it is to philosophy alone that we are indebted... Without philosophy, we would be little above the animals.

Aldous Huxley

On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.

Arthur Schopenhauer

the difficulty is… that something can be both true and untrue at the same time… mankind cannot get on without a certain amount of absurdity.

Haruki Murakami

… in this house that Carl Jung built, piling up stones with his own hands, at the very entrance, he found the need to chisel out these words… Sometimes I close my eyes and repeat them over and over, and they make me strangely calm. ‘Cold or Not, God Is Present.’

Ursula Le Guin

…the endlessness of all that is, and the limitation of mortal bodily life, are the same, and their sameness is the key to the door.

Mark Twain

‘And what does it amount to?’ said Satan, with his evil chuckle. ‘Nothing at all. You gain nothing… Who gets a profit out of it? Nobody but a parcel of usurping little monarchs and nobilities who despise you… whom you slave for, fight for, die for… it is the foundation upon which all civilizations have been built.’

Ursula Le Guin

‘doing without doing’: uncompetitive, unworried, trustful accomplishment, power that is not force. An example or analogy might be a very good teacher, or the truest voice in a group of singers.

John Blofeld

‘We have nothing on which to dine, Splendid, we shall have more time to sit outside and enjoy the moonlight, with music provided by the wind in the pines.