Lao Tzu Quotes

Inner silence is not just the absence of thoughts. No! Silence is the blossoming of our indomitable inner will. Silence is our inner wisdom-light.

Always keep your mind as bright and clear as the vast sky, the great ocean, and the highest peak, empty of all thoughts. Always keep your body filled with light and heat. Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment.

Meditation is not a means to an end. It is both the means and the end.

It's helpful to remind yourself that meditation is about opening and relaxing with whatever arises, without picking and choosing.

Every time you create a gap in the stream of mind, the light of your consciousness grows stronger

Enlightenment is the inner light of wisdom that is permanently free from all mistaken appearance, and whose function is to bestow mental peace upon each and every living being every day.

What is meditation? Meditation is our conscious awareness of something vast and infinite within us. Meditation grants us Peace, Light and Bliss.

Time past and time future allow but a little consciousness. To be conscious is not to be in time.

Without going outside, you may know the whole world, without looking through the window, you may see the ways of heaven. The farther you go, the less you know. Thus the sage knows without traveling; he sees without looking; he works without doing.

Memory, prophecy, and fantasy— The past, the future, and The dreaming moment between— Are all in one country, Living one immortal day. To know that is Wisdom. To use it is the Art.

You have to pull all your energy back to the present moment. And the moment the whole energy becomes a pool, here and now, the explosion of light happens and you are, for the first time, absolutely yourself - an eternal being, an immortal being, who knows nothing of death, who has never come across any darkness.

Without opening your door, you can open your heart to the world. Without looking out your window, you can see the essence of the Tao. The more you know, the less you understand. The Master arrives without leaving, sees the light without looking, achieves without doing a thing.

Blessed are those who have known meditation. Only those few people are the blessed people; others are simply groping in darkness. Meditation gives you an inner light, and then wherever you are there is light and whatsoever you do, you do in full light and clarity. Hence there is never any guilt, no repentance, no looking back. Whatsoever one does, one feels that's the only thing that can be done. It is always right.

The wisdom, the strength, the confidence - the awakened heart and mind are always accessible -- here, now, always.

There is nothing the wise man does reluctantly.

When our minds are filled with light, there is no room for darkness

Heaven is in everything: follow the light, hide in the cloudiness and begin in what is. Do this and your understanding will be like not understanding and your wisdom will be like not being wise. By not being wise you will become wise later.

Awareness is like the sun. When it shines on things, they are transformed.

The sage is not ill, because he sees illness as illness.

An unawakened person sees only his mind, which is merely a reflection of the light of pure consciousness arising from the Heart.

It is only through meditation that slowly slowly more consciousness is created within you, more light is created; more watchfulness, witnessing, happens. And that is the miracle of awareness: if you become aware of anger you become a master of anger. Then it is up to you whether to be angry or not. You are absolutely free to be this way or that way.

Nowness or the magic of the present moment is what joins the wisdom of the past with the present

Nothing has happened in the past; it happened in the Now. Nothing will ever happen in the future; it will happen in the Now.

The the illuminated mind the whole world sparkles with light.