Lao Tzu Quotes

Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.

Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.

Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment.

Buddha's teaching are very simple, you don't have to break your head to understand the message. The part that I like the most from Buddha's teachings and from His Holiness, The Dalai Lama, is that the most powerful weapon is to not attack, to be able to have self-control.

He who knows himself is enlightened.

Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and learning wiser grow without his books.

The object of studying philosophy is to know one's own mind, not other people's.

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.

I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.

Meditation is the soul's perspective glass.

I feel a lot more secure about the directions I take, than I might have, had I not practiced Buddhism.

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.

I am very willing to share whatever I know or feel I know about finding some serenity in this lifetime.

Cherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without; for much knowledge is a curse.

I've been practicing modalities of Eastern philosophy since about 1972. What I've learned through my meditation is a sense of equanimity, a sense of all things being equal.

If you take an hour out of your day to meditate, you will progress ten-fold. By staying mentally focused, you can let your worries go.

Knowledge means being in the place where we are put.

Being enlightened is just being aware. It's just being aware of something that you weren't aware before.

My whole teaching consists of two words, meditation and love.

Wisdom is founded on memory; happiness on forgetfulness.

Contemplation is wisdom's best nurse.

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

We have to learn to go beyond both a positive mind and a negative mind to become a silent, nonjudgmental, non-analytical, non-interpretiv e mind. In other words, the silent witness. In the process of silent witnessing, we experience inner silence. In the purity of silence, we feel connected to our source and to everything else.

To realize that our knowledge is ignorance, This is a noble insight. To regard our ignorance as knowledge, This is mental sickness. Only when we are sick of the sickness Shall we cease to be sick. The Sage is not sick, being sick of sickness; This is the secret of health.