Lao Tzu Quotes

You'll never find peace of mind until you listen to your heart.

You must direct your full, intense concentration on the heart. You must feel that you are not the mind. You have to feel that you are growing into the heart. You are only the heart and nothing else.

The true purpose of Zen is to see things as they are, to observe things as they are, and to let everything go as it goes. Zen practice is to open up our small mind.

I live in between My heart's compassion-rain And my life's oneness-gain.

Do not let the body be dragged along by mind nor the mind be dragged along by the body

Meditation clarifies our minds and opens our hearts, and brings us to unusual depth and stability of happiness, whatever life brings.

What is important in meditation is the quality of the mind and the heart.It is not what you achieve, or what you say you attain, but rather the quality of a mind that is innocent and vulnerable.

The most complete and true happiness comes in moments when you feel right there, completely present, with no ideas about good and bad, right and wrong - just a sense of open heart and open mind.

She who is centered in the Tao can go where she wishes, without danger. She perceives the universal harmony, even amid great pain, because she has found peace in her heart. Music or the smell of good cooking may make people stop and enjoy. But words that point to the Tao seem monotonous and without flavor. When you look for it, there is nothing to see. When you listen for it, there is nothing to hear. When you use it, it is inexhaustible.

My own words are not the medicine, but a prescription; not the destination, but a map to help you reach it. When you get there, quiet your mind and close your mouth. Don't analyze the Tao. Strive instead to live it: silently, undividedly, with your whole harmonious being.

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

Peace is a stranger to the rigid mind. Peace is a guest of the flexible heart.

Harmony is called the eternal. Knowing the eternal is called clarity.

The more you drop into your heart, the more God can drop into your mind.

The awakened heart and mind can be experienced as clarity itself, pure knowing.

When the mind, one-pointed and fully focused, knows the supreme silence in the Heart, this is true learning.

When the heart is open, it's easier for the mind to be turned toward God.

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

Calmness is the criterion of spiritual progress. Plunge the purified mind into the Heart. Then the work is over.

If you can let go of (the Tao) with your mind and surround it with your heart, it will live inside you forever.

I'm fortunate that I was introduced to the world of yoga and pranayama at an early age. That has been very useful to me. I always advise everyone to make this a part of their lives. Sometimes, we notice our mind works on one thing, the body on another, and time brings us in conflict. Yoga synchronizes the heart, the mind, and the body. That is Yoga.

Either by silencing the mind or by opening the heart, today's man can become tomorrow's God, tomorrow's Divinity. And embodied Divinity soon becomes revealed Immortality.

Your mind can be your enemy or friend. If you always follow your heart, your mind will feel neglected. If you follow only your mind, your heart will never forgive you. Never ignore your conscience, yet always be conscious of reason. Make your heart and mind friends and you will have peace of mind throughout life's seasons.

The mind usually says, “I know, I know, I know.” But the “don’t-know mind” is where wisdom lives.

No mind, no wisdom--tempora ry mind, temporary wisdom--eternal mind, eternal wisdom.