Lao Tzu Quotes

There are no extra pieces in the universe. Everyone is here because he or she has a place to fill, and every piece must fit itself into the big jigsaw puzzle.

All that is harmony for you, my Universe, is in harmony with me as well. Nothing that comes at the right time for you is too early or too late for me. Everything is fruit to me that your seasons bring, Nature. All things come of you, have their being in you, and return to you.

All things are in all.

Frequently consider the connection of all things in the universe.

Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Gandhi reminded those who followed his faith that perhaps its most important aspect was its commitment to oneness.

It may be that to eat and be eaten are the same thing in the end. My wisdom tells me that this is probably so. We are all made of the same stuff, remember, we of the Jungle, you of the City. The same substance composes us-the tree overhead, the stone beneath us, the bird, the beast, the star-we are all one, all moving to the same end. Remember that when you no longer remember me, my child.

I want to realize brotherhood or identity not merely with the beings called human, but I want to realize identity with all life, even with such things as crawl upon earth.

This We Know. All Things Are Connected

Life is one indivisible whole.

This world is a vast unbroken totality, a deep solidarity joins its contrary powers.

Nothing in the world is single, All things by a law divine, In one spirit meet and mingle-Why not I with thine?

No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.

In the world's audience hall, the simple blade of grass sits on the same carpet with the sunbeams, and the stars of midnight.

Spirituality is not about becoming special. It is about becoming one with everything.

Unity in variety is the plan of the universe.

Life is a manifestation of unity.

Wisdom is the oneness of mind that guides and permeated all things.

Everything is connected. The wing of the corn beetle affects the direction of the wind, the way the sand drifts, the way the light reflects into the eye of man beholding his reality. All is part of totality, and in this totality man finds his hozro, his way of walking in harmony, with beauty all around him.

Just as the ocean is waving so each one of us is a waving of the whole cosmos, the entire works, all there is.

Essence of humility is unity.

The sage has the sun and moon by his side and the universe under his arm. He blends everything into a harmonious whole. . . . He blends the disparities of ten thousand years into one complete purity. All things are blended like this and mutually involve each other.