“According to the Taoist master, Liu Yiming, the Way comes to the best people before virtue, whereas virtue is needed by middling and lesser people before they can understand the Way.”

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“Chuang Tzu was a deep thinker and a brilliant writer. He could be magnificent and grandiose, outrageous and funny, sharp and acerbic, dreamy and playful, sober and earnest, serene and unruffled. The inner meanings of his allegories have been pondered for centuries... [he] had the audacity to lay bare the root of the human condition”

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“In its pristine sense, the meaning of following the Tao, later called Taoism or wayfaring, included the whole spectrum of the search for knowledge... the schools of learning that retained the most comprehensive range of interest general came to be known as Taoist... [It] was used as a primary source for terms and concepts through which Buddhism could be explained to the Chinese.”

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“Taoism is based, first and foremost, on the experience of this universal Way, the essential reality through which derivative ways might be comprehended... Eventually the scope of the Way led them to undertake the investigation of vast domains of knowledge and experience... in three critical areas: individual well-being, social harmony, and accelerated evolution of consciousness.”

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“To worry about length of life and fear of death creates tension that tends to shorten life”

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