Lao Tzu Quotes

Transcendent Oneness does not require self-examination, self-help, or self-work. It requires self-loss.

To study the Way is to study the Self. To study the Self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be enlightened by all things of the universe. To be enlightened by all things of the universe is to cast off the body and mind of the self as well as those of others. Even the traces of enlightenment are wiped out, and life with traceless enlightenment goes on forever and ever

Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.

When a human being becomes so still that they begin to lose awareness of their gender, and they are simply looking into that abyss where there is no notion of self whatsoever, the world disappears. And that's really the only place to go. It's the only place to remain.

Yoga means union. Union means the boundaries of the individual self-dissolve, and you experience existence as yourself.

Forget the dancer, the center of the ego. Become the dance. Then the dancer disappears and only the dance remains. Then the dancer is the dance. There is no dancer separate from dance, no dance separate from the dancer.

Personal and collective awakening are one and the same - when a raindrop joins the sea, the sea also merges with the raindrop.

When all the Self was conquered and dead, when all passions and desires were silent, then the last must awaken, the innermost of Being that is no longer Self - the great secret!

You can find God if you will only seek - by obeying divine laws, by loving people, by relinquishing self-will, attachments, negative thoughts and feelings. And when you find God it will be in stillness. You will find God within.

Remain still, with the conviction that the Self shines as everything yet nothing, within, without, and everywhere.

I want to let you in on a little secret. There are no problems. There are no problems. There never were any problems, there are no problems today, and there will never be any problems. Problems just mean that the world isn't turning the way you want it to. But in truth, there are no problems. Everything is unfolding as it should. Everything is right. You have to forget about yourself and expand your consciousness until you become the whole universe. The Reality in back of the universe is Pure Awareness. It has no problems. And you are That.

Enlightenment for a wave is the moment the wave realizes it is water. At that moment, all fear of death disappears.

Hope and fear are both phantoms that arise from thinking of the self. When we don't see the self as self, what do we have to fear?

Guru, God and Self are One

The Art of Peace is medicine for a sick world. There is evil and disorder in the world, because people have forgotten that all things emanate from one source. Return to that source and leave behind all self-centered thoughts, petty desires, and anger. Those who are possessed by nothing possess everything.

The Sage has no thinking mind and therefore there are no ‘others’ for him.

My idea of enlightenment is when ego and Tao are fused, and Tao is perceived as ego. Then everything happens with complete appropriateness.

The transformation from separation to unity, from conflict to peace, is the goal of all spiritual traditions.

What you do for your Self, you do for another. What you do for another, you do for the Self. This is because you and the other are one. And this is because...there is naught but You.

Generally, people who are not self-realized are full of themselves. One who is self-realized sees that the whole world is full of one.

The one awakened liberated sees all things as one unseparated.

Mysticism is the art of union with Reality.

To forego even ambition when the end is gained - who can say this is not greatness?

Transcending the world does not mean to withdraw from the world, to no longer take action, or to stop interacting with people. Transcendence of the world is to act and to interact without any self-seeking.