Lao Tzu Quotes

I try to play with balance.

The great Way is easy, yet people prefer the side paths. Be aware when things are out of balance. Stay centered within the Tao.

To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.

When affirmation and negation came into being, Tao faded. After Tao faded, then came one-sided attachments.

Tao in the world is like a river flowing home to the sea.

And so The Snow Queen also became a story about the need to seek equilibrium, in our own lives, with the natural world, even within the universe at large.

Everything in life... has to have balance.

It's essential to have equilibrium in your life.

Balance is really important.

In harmony with the Tao, the sky is clear and spacious, the earth is solid and full, all creature flourish together, content with the way they are, endlessly repeating themselves, endlessly renewed. When man interferes with the Tao, the sky becomes filthy, the earth becomes depleted, the equilibrium crumbles, creatures become extinct. The Master views the parts with compassion, because he understands the whole. His constant practice is humility. He doesn't glitter like a jewel but lets himself be shaped by the Tao, as rugged and common as stone.

The union of opposites, in so far as they are really complementary, always results in the most perfect harmony; and the seemingly incongruous is often the most natural.

Yielding is the way of the Tao.

The secret of life is balance, and the absence of balance is life's destruction.

All things, and man as well, should be like nature, without measure.

When there is no more separation between 'this' and 'that,' it is called the still-point of the Tao. At the still point in the center of the circle one can see the infinite in all things.

Heaven's Way is like stretching a bow. The high is lowered and the low is raised. Excess is reduced and deficiency is replenished. Heaven's Way reduces excess and replenishes deficiency. People's Way is not so. They reduce the deficient and supply the excessive.

The great Way is all-pervading. It reaches to the left and to the right. All things depend on it with their existence. Still it demands no obedience.

Tao is the source of both fullness and emptiness. But it is itself neither fullness nor emptiness.

I think everything in life is a balance.

Nature moves towards balance.

We define organic order as the kind of order that is achieved when there is a perfect balance between the needs of the parts, and the needs of the whole.

It is a miracle of harmony, of the adaptation of the free inner life to the outward necessity of things.

We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.

The mandala describes balance. This is so whatever the pictorial form.