Lao Tzu Quotes

Find joy and solace in the simple, and cultivate your utopia by feeling the Tao in every cubic inch of space.

When the ancient Masters said, "If you want to be given everything, give everything up," they weren't using empty phrases. Only in being lived by the Tao can you be truly yourself.

In meditating, meditate on your own divinity. The goal of life is to be a vehicle for something higher. Keep your eyes up there between the world of opposites watching your 'play' in the world.Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Well, I'm Buddhist, Ray, and so part of my Buddhism has allowed me to look a little more deeply at people and the events in my life that created me. And I think a lot of that Buddhism comes out in the world view in this novel.

The Buddha taught that we're not actually in control, which is a pretty scary idea. But when you let things be as they are, you will be a much happier, more balanced, compassionate person.

The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.

It's all about balance and, I think, being in the moment.

We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself.

Maintaining spirituality and humanism are the keys to success. It's a balance.

The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.

Yoga means union, in all its significances and dimensions.

Buddhism has turned me on to my humanness, and is challenging my humanness so that I can become more human.

I'm concentrating on staying healthy, having peace, being happy, remembering what is important, taking in nature and animals, spending time reading, trying to understand the universe, where science and the spiritual meet.

Buddhism teaches us not to try to run away from suffering. You have to confront suffering. You have to look deeply into the nature of suffering in order to recognize its cause, the making of the suffering.

Let planning be the springboard, so that spirituality can be our splash.

Nearly everybody I know does something to try to remove herself to clear her head and to have enough time and space to think... All of us instinctively feel that something inside us is crying out for more spaciousness and stillness to offset the exhilarations of this movement and the fun and diversion of the modern world.

Prayer is when you talk to God. Meditation is when you're listening. Playing the piano allows you to do both at the same time.

The hardest thing to find in life is balance - especially the more success you have, the more you look to the other side of the gate. What do I need to stay grounded, in touch, in love, connected, emotionally balanced? Look within yourself.

We need balance. We need to balance our inner life with our outer life. Nature is always sitting there waiting to help us, but we have to do the work. Nature is probably the greatest teacher that we'll ever have... the earth and nature.

Enlightenment is the key to everything, and it is the key to intimacy, because it is the goal of true authenticity.

You have to make peace with yourself. The key is to find the harmony in what you have.

When you can take away the ego, you learn a lot about yourself and the world around you.

Philosophically, I would say that I am Buddhist.