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    Ming-Dao Deng
    “We may be floating on Tao, but there is nothing wrong with steering. If Tao is like a river, it is certainly good to know where the rocks are.”
    ― Deng Ming-Dao, Everyday Tao: Living with Balance and Harmony
    tags: action, river, rocks, taoism
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    Zhuangzi
    “Let your mind wander in simplicity, blend your spirit with the vastness, follow along with things the way they are, and make no room for personal views - then the world will be governed.”
    ― Zhuangzi, The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu
    tags: govern, simplicity, taoism, vastness
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    Lao Tzu
    “The hard and mighty lie beneath the ground
    While the tender and weak dance on the breeze above.”
    ― Lao Tzu
    tags: tao-te-ching, taoism
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    Ming-Dao Deng
    “Expression is never helped by suppression.”
    ― Deng Ming-Dao, Everyday Tao: Living with Balance and Harmony
    tags: expression, suppression, taoism
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  • #5
    Lao Tzu
    “Emptiness appears barren
    yet is infinite fullness”
    ― Lao Tzu & A J Girling - translator
    tags: lao-tzu, tao-te-ching, taoism
    9 likes

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  • #6
    Lao Tzu
    “Who acts in stillness finds stillness in his life.”
    ― Lao Tzu & A J Girling - translator
    tags: lao-tzu, tao-te-ching, taoism
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  • #7
    Lao Tzu
    “Practice non-action.
    Work without doing.
    Magnify the small;
    increase the few.
    Reward bitterness with care.”
    ― Lao Tzu
    tags: lao-tzu, tao, taoism
    8 likes

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  • #8
    Lao Tzu
    “Stillness and tranquility set things in order in the universe.”
    ― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
    tags: tao, taoism
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  • #9
    Lao Tzu
    “If you show yourself, you will not be seen. If you affirm yourself, you will not shine.”
    ― Lao Tzu
    tags: tao, taoism
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  • #10
    “if you want to become straight, first let yourself become twisted. If you want to become full, first let yourself become empty. If you want to become new, first let yourself become old. Those who desires are few get them, those whose desires are great go astray.”
    ― Tao Te Ching
    tags: religion, tao, taoism
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  • #11
    “Water gives life to the ten thousand things and does not strive. It flows in places men reject and so is like the Tao.”
    ― Tao Te Ching
    tags: religion, tao, taoism
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  • #12
    Lao Tzu
    “To live till you die
    Is to live long enough”
    ― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
    tags: death, life, philosophy, taoism
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  • #13
    Wayne Ng
    “Your Highness, were I to desire to change the world, I could not succeed. The world is shaped by the Way; the self cannot shape it. Trying to change it, you damage it; trying to possess it, you lose it.”
    ― Wayne Ng, Finding the Way: A Novel of Lao Tzu
    tags: inspirational, philosophical, taoism
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  • #14
    “When the wrong man uses the right means, the right means work in the wrong way.”
    ― Taoist saying
    tags: sayings, taoism, wisdom
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  • #15
    Benjamin Hoff
    “Do you want to be really happy? You can begin by being appreciative of who you are and what you've got.”
    ― Benjamin Hoff, The Tao of Pooh
    tags: dao, daoism, tao, tao-of-pooh, taoism
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  • #16
    Bodhidharma
    “Reality has no inside, outside, or middle part.”
    ― Bodhidharma
    tags: buddhism, tao, taoism, zen
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  • #17
    “Insecure people seek answers in all the wrong places.”
    ― Robert Black
    tags: insecure, insecure-people, insecure-women, insecurity, insecurity-quotes, meditation, taoism
    4 likes

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  • #18
    “Those who know that they have enough are wealthy.”
    ― Solala Towler, Tales from the Tao: The Wisdom of the Taoist Masters
    tags: peace, soothing, taoism
    3 likes

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  • #19
    Surya Das
    “No one knows everything. No one knows nothing. Everyone has a piece of the puzzle.”
    ― Lama Surya Das
    tags: buddhism, tao, taoism, zen
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  • #20
    “My opinion is that you never find happiness until you stop looking for it.”
    ― Solala Towler, Cha Dao: The Way of Tea, Tea as a Way of Life
    tags: taoism
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    Alan W. Watts
    “It is true that in Taoism and Tantric Buddhism there are what appear to be techniques or 'practices' of sexual relationship[.] Their use is the consequence rather than the cause of a certain inner attitude, since they suggest themselves almost naturally to partners who take their love as it comes, contemplatively, and are in no hurry to grasp anything from it.”
    ― Alan W. Watts, Nature, Man and Woman
    tags: taoism
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    Alan W. Watts
    “To define means to fix, and, when you get down to it, real life isn't fixed.”
    ― Alan W. Watts, The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety
    tags: mindfulness, taoism
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  • #23
    Leland Lewis
    “The eternal Tao. Prior to time with no beginning, beyond space with no end, yet right here in the forever Now; all pervading. The great Oneness of the All.”
    ― Leland Lewis, Random Molecular Mirroring
    tags: all-is-one, tao, taoism
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  • #24
    Alan W. Watts
    “[T]o be forever looking beyond is to remain blind to what is here.”
    ― Alan W. Watts, Nature, Man and Woman
    tags: mindfulness, taoism
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    Leland Lewis
    “Taoism ~ There is no 'other'. All is One.”
    ― Leland Lewis, Random Molecular Mirroring
    tags: oneness, tao, taoism, the-golden-rule
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  • #26
    Leland Lewis
    “The Eternal Tao

    Like the softness
    of water we flow...
    through gentleness
    of love we grow...
    and through blissful
    Oneness we know...
    Forever is now.”
    ― Leland Lewis, Random Molecular Mirroring
    tags: tao, taoism, way-of-the-heart
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  • #27
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
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  • #28
    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, best, life, love, misattributed-marilyn-monroe, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst
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  • #29
    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    ― Bernard M. Baruch
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter
    130136 likes

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  • #30
    William W. Purkey
    “You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
    Love like you'll never be hurt,
    Sing like there's nobody listening,
    And live like it's heaven on earth.”
    ― William W. Purkey
    tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
    128893 likes



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